3452
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 115

145. Articles may also be assigned to another member by agreement between the articled pupil or apprentice and his employer.

146. The articled pupil or apprentice shall lodge the transfer or assignment of his articles with the Council to be registered, within one month of such transfer or assignment, failing which any such assignment or transfer of articles shall be of no effect. The Council shall on approval of such transfer or assignment, register the same without fee.

147. No member may have more than two articled pupils or apprentices in his service at the same time, except in case of pupil’s decease or retirement of one partner of a firm, in which case his articled pupil or pupils or apprentices may be transferred to a surviving partner for the remainder of their term of service.

148. No person under 15 years of age shall be received as an articled pupil or apprentice.

149. No member not in practice shall take or retain an articled pupil or apprentice.

150. The period of service of an articled pupil or apprentice shall be not less than three years.

151. No articled pupil or apprentice shall be taken unless under regular deed of indenture, in a form approved by the Council and on the lines recommended in Appendix “I.”

152. The Council shall have the right to refuse to register the Articles of Indenture of any pupil, or the transfer or assignment of any existing articles upon any grounds, which according to its absolute discretion, shall seem in the interests of the Institute, and it shall not be obliged to disclose the reasons for such refusal, except to the member concerned, but a simple notification in writing to the applicant that the Council has decided to refuse to register his articles or any transfer or assignment thereof shall be final and conclusive.

153. If the Council, at a meeting specially convened with notice of this object, pass a resolution that a complaint of misconduct made against an articled pupil or apprentice by his employer has been proved, and is of such a nature as to make that person unfit to become a member, the articles under which that person has been serving shall, for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations, be deemed to be at an end, and the registration thereof shall be cancelled. No such resolution shall be proposed until the pupil or apprentice has been notified of the charge against him and been given an opportunity to be heard in his defence.

IX. OF EXAMINATIONS.

154. The Council may annually appoint, on the recommendation of the Committee of Architectural Education (vide Reg. 99), a Board of Examiners in architecture, the members of which shall consist of members of the Institute and such other persons as the Council may consider necessary, whether members of the Institute or not, to assist the Board in the conduct of such examination or examinations as may be required by the Institute to be passed by candidates for admission to the Institute.

155. (a) The Council may make arrangements with the University of New Zealand for the conduct by the University of all or any examinations prescribed by the Regulations of the Institute.

(b) The Council may recognize any examination prescribed by the University of New Zealand, for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture, or any part of that examination, as equivalent to and as a substitute for the examination referred to in paragraph (j) of Section Eight of the Act, or any part of that examination.

156. The Council shall have power to pay out of the funds of the Institute to each examiner for examining the candidates, such sum as the Council may from time to time determine.

157. Every candidate shall, at least sixty days before the examination at which he proposes to be examined, give written notice to the Council of his desire to be examined, and shall pay the fee payable in respect of such examination; and shall, in the case of the Intermediate examination, produce and deposit a certificate that he has duly passed the Preliminary examination or has obtained exemption therefrom; and in the case of the Final Examination he shall produce and deposit a certificate to the effect that he has duly passed the Intermediate examination or has obtained exemption therefrom.

158. Any candidate who has failed to pass any examination to the satisfaction of the Board of Examiners may present himself again at any subsequent examination; save that the Board may, in its discretion (but subject to an appeal to the Council) refuse to allow any such person so to present himself. If after payment of his fee a candidate withdraws his name or fails to present himself for examination, no part of the fee shall be returned to him; but the Board may allow such fee to apply to the examination at which such candidate presents himself.

159. Any candidate who has failed to pass in some portion of any examination may present himself again for those subjects in which he has failed at the next following examination without payment of examination fees; should he again fail he may present himself at the next again following examination upon payment of half-fees and should he again fail he must then take the whole of the subjects applicable to the examination and pay the full prescribed fees.

160. The Board of Examiners shall report to the Council the result of each examination; and, upon the adoption by the Council of the Report of the Board, a certificate to the effect that he has passed such examination shall, unless withheld for any reasonable cause, be issued to every person who has passed such examination to the satisfaction of the said Board. Such certificate shall be signed by the President and one member of the Council and countersigned by the Secretary.

161. Each candidate for an examination shall have a number assigned to him by the supervisor, and he shall be referred to by such number only until after the adoption by the Council of the Report of the Board as to the result of his examination. The report of the Board as to results shall be FINAL, and no papers or markings shall be subject to review by the Board or by the Council.

162. Every person desirous of qualifying himself for membership will be required to pass the following examinations, provided that existing members who wish to sit for examinations shall not be required to pass the Preliminary Examination:—

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION.

163. The Preliminary Examination shall be the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand, or any other recognized University.

INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.

164. Every applicant who has passed the Preliminary Examination or been granted an exemption certificate may submit himself to the Intermediate Examination to be held annually in December, such examination to be partly in writing and partly oral, and in the following subjects:—

(1) History of Architecture and Architectural Ornament.

(2) Building Construction.

(3) Mathematics and Mechanics.

(4) Descriptive Geometry, Perspective, and Freehand Drawing.

Provided that the Council, by the votes of two-thirds of such members of the Council as are present and voting at a meeting of the Council specially convened, with notice of this object, may add to, take from, or alter such subjects.

165. The details of this examination are more particularly set out in Appendix “J.” To pass in any subject candidates will be required to obtain at least 50 per cent. of the marks allotted to that subject.

FINAL EXAMINATION.

166. Every applicant who has passed the Intermediate Examination and who has attained the age of 21 years will then be eligible to submit himself for the Final Examination, which shall be held annually in December and shall be conducted partly in writing and partly orally in the following subjects:—

(a) Preliminary Studies, to be prepared prior to application for examination and as more particularly set out in Appendix “J.”

(b) (1) Architectural Design.

(2) Architectural History.

(3) Building Construction.

(4) Mathematics and Mechanics.

(5) Descriptive Geometry, Perspective and Freehand Drawing.

(6) Electricity and Magnetism.

(7) Sanitary Science and Hygiene.

(8) Professional Practice, including the laws relating to contracts, liens, and municipal by-laws.

167. The details of this examination are more particularly set out in Appendix “J.”

To pass in any subject candidates will be required to obtain at least 50 per cent. of the marks allotted to that subject.

168. The fees payable by a candidate on entering for any examination shall be as follows:—

For the Intermediate Examination, £2 2s.

For the Final Examination, £2 2s.

169. The efficiency of each candidate shall be indicated by marks, proportionate to the accuracy and fullness of his answers, and the evidence they afford of general acquaint-