Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2571

17. Probationers and students other than articled pupils shall pay to the Institute a fee of £1 1s. for the registration of their names as prescribed in Regulation No. 140, and until such registration has been effected shall not be entitled to sit for the Institute’s examinations.

18. Annual subscriptions shall be paid in advance at the registered office of the Institute, and shall be due on the tenth day of January in each year. Every subscribing member elected after the first day of October in any year shall not, after having paid his entrance fee or contribution and first annual subscription as hereinbefore provided, be required to pay any further subscription before the tenth day of January twelve months subsequent to his election.

19. Every subscribing member shall be liable for the payment of his annual subscription until he shall have ceased to be a member.

20. No person shall become a member of the Institute unless he shall have paid the entrance fee and annual subscription prescribed by these regulations; and if he does not pay such entrance fee and subscription within two months after notice given to him by post to pay the same, the admission or election shall be void.

21. The Council may remove from the Register the name of any member who is in arrear for twelve months in the payment of any fees payable by him, and on notice in the form prescribed in Appendix “F” of such removal under the hand of the Secretary being delivered to that member or posted to his last-known postal address, he shall cease to be a member of the Institute.

22. Any member whose name is so removed from the Register may, at any time within twelve months after the date when notice thereof is so delivered or posted to him, pay to the Council all fees which are in arrear, together with all fees which would have accrued due had he remained a member, and he shall thereupon be entitled to have his name restored to the Register. On such restoration he shall be deemed to have been readmitted as a member of the Institute as from the date of such payment, but he shall not be entitled to the benefit of the exemption provided by paragraph 18 hereof.

Designation of Members.

23. All members shall at all times use the designation “Registered Architect,” and in addition thereto Fellows may use after their names the initials F.N.Z.I.A., and Associates may use after their names the initials A.N.Z.I.A.

Resignations.

24. A member may resign his membership by sending his resignation in writing addressed to the Secretary of the Institute, accompanied by his certificate, and paying up all arrears of subscriptions or other moneys due by him to the Institute.

The resignation shall not be deemed to be accepted until a resolution to that effect has been passed either by the Council or the Executive Committee.

25. Every person who ceases to be a member of the Institute ceases also to be a member of a District Branch.

26. If any person cease for any cause whatever to be a member of the Institute he shall not nor shall his legal representatives have any interest in or claim against the funds or property of the Institute.

27. (1) The Council or the Executive Committee may refuse to accept the resignation of any member—

(a) If it has good cause for believing that the member has been guilty of conduct that would justify his expulsion from the Institute or his removal from the Register; or

(b) If the Council is informed of, and proposes to inquire into, any matters which, if proved to its satisfaction, would establish that the member has been guilty of such conduct; or

(c) If the member is indebted to the Institute.

(2) Such resignation shall not take effect if the Council or the Executive Committee refuses to accept it on any of the grounds mentioned in the last preceding subsection.

Misconduct of a Member.

28. If any person while he is a member of the Institute—

(a) Violates any fundamental rule of the Institute; or

(b) Is convicted of crime or misdemeanor or is finally declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to have committed any fraud; or

(c) Is held by the Council on the complaint of any member of the Institute or of any person aggrieved to have been guilty of culpable inefficiency and/or negligence or of any act or default discreditable to an architect; or

(d) Being in practice either solely on his own account or in partnership with any other person or persons, or is employed as a draughtsman by another person or persons, is interested or concerned in the profits of any building operations or in the acceptance of any trade discounts from any merchant or tradesman dealing in materials for building; or

(e) Conducts himself in or out of a meeting of the Institute in a manner which, in the opinion of the Council, is derogatory to his professional character or that of a gentleman—

he shall be liable to be censured, or excluded from membership, or suspended for any period as the Council may determine:

Provided that it shall be competent for the Council, or the Executive Committee, or by postal vote of the members of the Council in accordance with Regulation 117, to place on a “separate list” any member who may find it necessary to engage in the practices described in clause (d) of this regulation. On receipt of an application from a member requesting that his name be placed on the “separate list” the member shall be required to sign an agreement setting out that he will not during the time his name is on such “separate list” engage in practice as an architect or use the title of architect or compete in any way with architects in the design of buildings. Such agreement to have effect until notification by the member concerned to the Secretary of the Institute that he has ceased such employment when the Council or the Executive Committee may resolve that his name be restored to the ordinary list of members.

29. Any charge under the preceding section preferred against a member must be in writing duly signed and forwarded to the Secretary, who shall lay it before the Council or the Executive Committee at its next meeting. Such charge shall be considered by the Council or the Executive Committee, and the Council or the Executive Committee shall have power to appoint a committee of not fewer than three members to investigate and report thereon. Should the Council or the Executive Committee find prima facie grounds for further proceedings, the Secretary shall enclose in a registered letter to the member against whom the charge is preferred a copy of the charge, calling upon him to answer such charge and naming a time (not less than twenty-one days) when the Council will meet to consider such charge, upon which the Council alone shall have power to deliberate. The member so charged may either reply to such charge in writing or notify the Secretary seven days at least before the date fixed for considering such charge that he desires to be heard in person. The Council shall upon the day so fixed, or upon any later day, consider such charge and give the member charged fair and reasonable opportunity to be heard in his defence. The Council shall have power to summon any member required to attend as a witness, and any member, after tender to him of reasonable expenses for his attendance, failing to attend, unless reasonable excuse is given, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding £5. The Council shall duly consider all matters brought before it, and if a majority of at least two-thirds of the Council present at the meeting hearing such charge shall be of opinion that the charge is proved the Council shall have power to censure such member, to decree the suspension of such member for a period not exceeding twelve months or his expulsion from the Institute. And the Secretary shall thereupon communicate the decision of the Council by registered letter to such member:

Provided always that should any facts be subsequently brought to the knowledge of the Council which in its opinion shall justify it in rescinding its previous decision, it shall do so only with the concurrence of at least the number of votes required for the suspension or expulsion as herein provided, and in such case the Council shall notify its decision to each of the District Branches. In the case of any such censure, expulsion, or recision as herein mentioned, the fact may be forthwith gazetted and recorded in the Journal of Proceedings, and, in addition, the Council may cause notice thereof to be published in such newspapers or journals as it may select.

In the event of the suspension or exclusion of a member, every certificate of membership then held by him shall be delivered by him to the Council, to be retained during his suspension or to be cancelled as the case may be, and any expelled or suspended member shall, ipso facto, cease to hold any office he may hold.

30. Members who are in the sole employ of the Government or any public body who at the same time practice as architects or receive any emolument for professional services other than that which they receive out of public funds shall be liable to expulsion from the Institute.