RULE 2

• The Board shall submit an annual report to the Commission after the close of each year giving a detailed account of its proceedings during the year and making such recommendations as it may deem proper.
• The Commission in the conduct of the investigation shall be guided by Section 7(s) of R.A No. 8981.
• The Commission shall designate the Secretary of the Board and shall provide the secretariat and other support services to implement the provisions of R.A No. 9266.
• The chairman and members of the Board shall receive compensation and allowances comparable to that being received by the chairman and members of existing regulatory Boards under the Commission as provided for in the General Appropriations Act.
• The Board is under the administrative supervision of the Commission.
• All records of the Board, including applications for examination, examination questions, answer sheets, and other records and documents pertaining to licensure examination, administrative and other investigative cases conducted by the Board are under the custody of the Commission.
• The President of the Philippines, upon the recommendation of the Commission, may suspend or remove any member of the Board for neglect of duty or incompetence, violation or tolerance of the violation of R.A No. 9266, or its implementing rules and regulations or the Code of Ethical Conduct and Standards of Professional Practice, final judgment of crimes involving moral turpitude, or manipulation or rigging of the architecture licensure examination results, disclosure of secret and confidential information in the examination questions prior to the conduct of the said examination or tampering of
• There is hereby created a Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture, referred to as the Board, a collegial body under the supervision and administrative control of the Professional Regulation Commission, referred to as the Commission, composed of a chairman and two (2) members appointed by the President of the Philippines from a list of three (3) recommendees chosen from a list of five (5) nominees for each position submitted to the Commission by the integrated and the accredited professional organization of architects.
• The Board shall be organized not later than six (6) months from the effectivity of the Architecture Act of 2004.
• Be a citizen and a resident of the Philippines.
• Hold a degree in Bachelor of Science in Architecture conferred by a school, college or university in the Philippines or abroad that is recognized and/or accredited by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
• Be an architect with a valid Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card and active practitioner of architecture for at least ten (10) years on the date of his/her appointment.
• Not be a member of the faculty of any school, college, university or review institution where a regular course or review course in architecture is taught, nor have pecuniary interest in such institution.
• No former member of the faculty of any school, institute, university or review center where architecture is taught can become a member of the Board unless he/she had officially resigned from such an institution and has completely stopped teaching, advising or reviewing activities for at least five (5) years prior to the nomination.
• Members of the Board shall hold office for a term of three (3) years after appointment or until their successors shall have been appointed and duly qualified.
• Any vacancy occurring within the term of a member of the Board shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term only.
• Each member of the Board may be reappointed for one full term of three (3) years.
• Of the members of the Board first appointed under R.A No. 9266, one (1) member shall be appointed and hold office as chairman for three (3) years, one (1) member for two (2) years, and one (1) member for one (1) year.
• Members of the Board shall qualify by taking the proper oath prior to the performance of their duties.
• The incumbent members of the Board shall continue to serve for the remainder of their term as members of the herein created Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture until a new Board shall have been properly organized.
• The incumbent members of the Board may be appointed as members of the First Board.
• Prescribe and adopt the “IRR of the Architecture Act of 2004” for carrying out the provisions of R.A No. 9266.
• Supervise the registration, licensure and practice of architects.
• Administer oaths in connection with the administration of R.A No. 9266.
• Supervise the registration, licensure and practice of architects.
• Issue, suspend, revoke, or reinstate the Certificate of Registration and the Professional Identification Card for the practice of the architecture profession.
• Adopt an official seal of the Board.
• Monitor the conditions affecting the practice of architecture and adopt such measures as may be deemed proper for the enhancement and maintenance of high professional, ethical and technical standards of the profession.
• Prescribe and/or adopt the Code of Ethical Conduct and Standards of Professional Practice.
• Hear and decide administrative cases involving violations of R.A No. 9266.