Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2577

Members to have Two Articled Pupils only.

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

No Person under Fifteen to be Articled.

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

Member not in Practice cannot take Articled Pupil.

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

Period of Service not less than Three Years.

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

Form of Articles to be approved by Council.

150. 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.”

Council has Right to refuse to register Articles.

151. The Council or the Executive Committee 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 or the Executive Committee has decided to refuse to register his articles or any transfer or assignment thereof shall be final and conclusive.

Registration of Articles may be cancelled in Case of Misconduct.

152. If the Council, or the Executive Committee 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 has been given an opportunity to be heard in his defence.

IX.—EXAMINATIONS.

Board of Examiners in Architecture.

153. The Council may annually appoint, on the recommendation of the Committee of Architectural Education (vide Regulation 97), 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.

154. (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 8 of the Act, or any part of that examination.

Remuneration of Examiners.

155. 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.

156. The Council shall have power to approve a Syllabus of Examination for membership of the Institute and to regulate the terms and conditions under which candidates may submit themselves for such examinations.

X.—GENERAL MATTERS.

Notices.

157. (a) A notice may be served by the Institute upon any member either personally or posted to him in an addressed envelope in any post-office. Any notice sent by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered at the member’s last-known postal address in the ordinary course of the post, and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and posted.

(b) In any case where it is required that a fixed number of days’ notice less than seven days shall be given, Sundays and statutory holidays and the days of publication and of the meetings shall not be counted in such fixed number.

(c) No member who has neglected to have his address sent to the office of the Institute (for registration in the books of the Institute) shall be entitled to have any notice or other document sent to him.

(d) No member shall be entitled to have any notice or document sent to him out of the Dominion of New Zealand, and any member residing out of the Dominion shall register in the books of the Institute an address within the Dominion to which all notices or documents of the Institute may be sent on his behalf.

Conditions of Contract.

158. The “Articles of Agreement” and the “General Conditions of Contract,” as published from time to time by the Council, shall be used by all members in any contracts they may let to builders or others on behalf of any client. Such articles and conditions are the property of the Institute and must bear the seal of the Institute. They are procurable from the Secretary or any District Secretary on application at a price to be fixed by the Council. No member will be permitted to print his own copies or to make use of any which do not bear the seal of the Institute.

Contributions.

159. The name of every person who shall contribute to the collection, the library, or by special contribution to the general funds of the Institute, shall be published in the Journal of Proceedings.

160. Every paper read before the Institute must be submitted to the Council or the Executive Committee, and if approved shall be considered to be presented, and shall in consequence of such presentation become the property of the Institute, and the Council may publish the same in any way and at any time that it may think proper.

Custody of Deeds, &c.

161. The deeds and securities of the Institute shall be kept in the custody of the bank on behalf of the Council in an iron chest, with three separate locks, each having a different key, and the keys thereof respectively shall be kept by the Honorary Treasurer, the Honorary Secretary, and the Secretary, one by each.

Damage to Property.

162. If any injury be done to any of the property of the Institute, the person causing the injury shall forthwith make such damage good or shall pay to the Institute the full value of such damaged property.

Indemnity of Officers.

163. The members of the Council, the auditor, Secretary, and other officers shall be indemnified by the Institute from all losses and expenses incurred by them in or about the discharge of their respective duties, except such as happen from their own respective wilful default; provided that nothing herein contained shall entitle any councillor to travelling-expenses except as are authorized under clause 81 hereof.

164. No member of the Council, auditor, Secretary, or other officer shall be liable for any other member of the Council, auditor, Secretary, or other officer, or for joining in receipt of document, for any act of conformity, or for any loss or expense happening to the Institute, unless the same happen from his own wilful default.

Income, &c., how applied.

165. The income and property of the Institute whencesoever derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Institute as set forth in these regulations, and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the persons who at any time are or have been members of the Institute, or to any of them, or to any person claiming through any of them except as a salaried officer.

Winding up.

166. Every member of the Institute undertakes to contribute to the assets of the Institute in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he is a member or within one year afterwards for payment of the debts and liabilities of the Institute contracted before the time