Steps to registering with the Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors of Kenya

The Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors of Kenya (BORAQS) has a mandate of regulating the professions of Architecture and Quantity Surveying through training, registration and enhancement of ethical practices.

Qualifications for registration as architect

No person shall be registered as an architect unless he—
(a) has attained the age of twenty-one years; and
(b) either—
(i) has had a minimum of five years of approved training followed by at least one year of practical experience in the work of an architect to the satisfaction of the Board, and has passed a prescribed examination; or
(ii) has been admitted as a corporate member of an approved professional institution whose qualifications for such admission are not less than those set out in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; and has had a minimum of one year of professional experience in Kenya to the satisfaction of the Board or has satisfied the Board that he has otherwise acquired an adequate knowledge of Kenya building contract procedures; and
(d) has paid the prescribed registration fee.

Qualifications for registration as quantity surveyor

No person shall be registered as a quantity surveyor unless he—
(a) has attained the age of twenty-one years; and
(b) either—
(i) has passed a prescribed examination; or
(ii) has been admitted as a corporate member of an approved professional institution whose qualifications for such admission include the equivalent of such prescribed examination; and
(c) has had a minimum of one year of professional experience in Kenya to the satisfaction of the Board or has satisfied the Board that he has otherwise acquired an adequate knowledge of Kenya building contract procedures; and
(d) has paid the prescribed registration fee

Removal from the registered list

The Board may at any time direct that the name of a registered person be removed from the register where such registered person has—

(a) failed within a period of six months from the date of an inquiry sent by the Registrar by pre-paid registered letter to the address appearing in the register against his name, to notify the Registrar of his current address.

(b) requested that his name be removed from the register in which case such person may be required to satisfy the Board by affidavit lodged with the Registrar that no criminal proceedings under section 13 of this Act are being or are likely to be taken against him.

(c) been found by the Board to be guilty of misconduct as is described in section 13 of this Act.

The Registrar shall remove from the register the name of every registered person who dies, and shall remove from the register any entry which has been incorrectly or fraudulently made.

The removal of a registered person’s name from the register shall be notified by the Registrar to that person by pre-paid registered letter addressed to the address appearing in the register against his name immediately before the removal.

Subject to the provisions of section 12 of this Act, a person whose name has been removed from the Register shall cease from the date of such removal to be registered for the purpose of this Act. [Act No. 12 of 1973, s. 9, Act No. 20 of 1989, Sch., Act No. 9 of 2000, s. 110.]

Restoration to the register

Where the name of any registered person has been removed from the register under section 11 of this Act, the name of that registered person shall not be entered again in the register except by direction of the Board.

Where the name of any person has been removed from the register or the effect of the registration of any person has been suspended, the Board may, either of its own motion or on the application of the person concerned made in the prescribed manner, and in either case after holding such inquiry as the Board thinks fit direct that—

(a) the removal from the register be confirmed; or
(b) the name of that person be restored to the register; or
(c) the suspension of the effect of the registration of the person be terminated.

A direction given by the Board under subsection (2) of this section may include provision for the date upon which a restoration to the register or the termination of a suspension shall take effect and for the payment by the person concerned of such fee, not exceeding the fee payable on an application for registration, as the Board may determine.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION-FORM B2 -EAC