Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I move amendment No. 55:

In page 24, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:

"(2) This section does not prevent a body corporate or partnership from carrying on business under a name, style or title containing the word "architect" provided that at least one of the directors or partners as the case may be is registered under this Part.".

Under this proposal, a multidisciplinary practice where not every person in it is deemed to be an architect but the word "architect" is included in describing the team would not fall to be subject to prohibitions under section 16. In other words, there would be an explicit understanding that, as is increasingly the case, multidisciplinary teams exist that may include the word "architect" in their description even though the majority of people in the practice would not necessarily be architects. All it would mean is that the provisions of section 16 could not be taken against these practices for use of the word "architect" in those contexts.

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