Architects Registration Board is established under the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (Amendment) Act No.14 of 1996 to make legal provisions for registering chartered architects, architects and architectural licentiates to Practice the Profession of Architecture in Sri Lanka as well as to publish the institutions whose qualifications are recognized for the purpose of such registration.
Those who have qualified in the field of Architecture with recognized qualifications and who wish to practice the Profession of Architecture should register with the Architects Registration Board and thereafter renew such registration annually.
Particulars of registrants and institutions are published annually by an Extraordinary Gazette.
Every Chartered Architect, Architects or Architectural Licentiate, is entitled to take or use the title "Chartered Architect", "Architect", or "Architectural Licentiate", as the case may be.
A firm, each of the partners of which is a Chartered Architect or an Architect or an Architectural Licentiate, is entitled to take and use the title "Chartered Architect", "Architect" or "Architectural Licentiate", as the case may be ;
Where one or more of the partners of a firm are Chartered Architects, Architects or Architectural Licentiates, such firm can take and use the title "Chartered Architect", "Chartered Architects", "Architect", "Architects" or "Architectural Licentiate" or "Architectural Licentiates" as the case may be, as part of the description of such firm provided that the remaining partners are members of such other prescribed professions.
Where the partners of a firm consist of one or more Architectural Licentiates as well as other persons who are non-Corporate Members or Registered Members of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, the title "Chartered Architects" shall not be used as the description, or part of the description, of such firm.
Provided, however that it shall be lawful for each of the partners of such firm to append to his name the title and initials which he is entitled to take and use under the provisions of the Act.
Eligibility for Registration