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Table 48 Regulation of the Town Planning Profession Region

Country

Profession regulation

Law under which the profession is regulated

Name of regulator

Botswana

Externally Regulated

Town and Country Planning Act, 2013

Department of Town and Country Planning

Ghana

Self-regulated

-

-

Mauritius

Externally Regulated

Planning and Development Act 2004, Council of Professional Planners 2018 (Bill-not enacted yet) Town and Country Planning Act 1954, Local Government Act 2011, EPA Act 2014

Ministry of Housing and Lands, Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Environment

Nigeria

Externally Regulated

Decree 3 of 1988 (Cap T7 LFN 2004)

Town Planners Registration Council of Nigeria

South Africa

Externally Regulated

Planning Profession Act 36 2002

SACPLAN

Tanzania

Externally Regulated

Town Planners Registration Act (Act No. 7 of 20007)

Tow Planners Registration Board (TPRB)

Malaysia

Externally Regulated

Town Planners Act 1995 (Act 538)

Board of Town Planners Malaysia

Pakistan

Externally Regulated

Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners Ordinance 1983 (Ordinance IX of 1983)

PACTP (Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners)

Singapore

Self-regulated

-

-

Sri Lanka

Self-regulated

-

-

Barbados

Unregulated

-

-

Canada

Externally Regulated

Many, which are provincially based.

-

Trinidad & T.

Self-regulated

-

-

Malta

Unregulated

-

-

UK

Self-regulated

-

-

Australia

Unregulated

-

-

Fiji

Unregulated

-

--

New Zealand

Self-regulated

-

Africa

Asia

Caribbean & Americas Europe

Pacific

Table 49 Regulation of the Engineering Profession Region

Africa

Asia

Country

Profession regulation

Law under which the profession is regulated

Name of regulator

Botswana

Self-regulated

-

-

Ghana

Externally Regulated

Engineering Council Act 819, 2011

Engineering Council of Ghana

Mauritius

Externally Regulated

Council of Registered Professional Engineers Act of 1966

Council of Registered Professional Engineers Board

Mozambique

Self-regulated

-

-

Uganda

Externally Regulated

Engineers Registration Act of 1969

Engineers Registration Board

Zambia

Self-regulated

Malaysia

Externally Regulated

The Registration of Engineers Act 1967

Board of Engineers Malaysia

Self-regulated

826

APEB

Unregulated

An Engineers' Registration Act was passed in 2014 but not yet enforced.

-

-

-

Self-regulated

-

-

Caribbean & Belize Americas Grenada Europe

Malta UK

Table 50 Regulation of the Surveying Profession Region

Country

Profession regulation

Law under which the profession is regulated

Name of regulator

Nigeria

Externally Regulated

Quantity Surveying Registration Board of Nigeria Act

Quantity Surveying Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN)

Africa

Rwanda

Externally Regulated

Law No. 17/2010 of 12/05/2010

Council of Regulation of the Real Property Profession in Rwanda

Tanzania

Self-regulated

-

-

Asia

Malaysia

Self-regulated

-

-

Trinidad and Tobago

Externally Regulated

Only the Registered, Licensed Land Surveyors are regulated by the Land Surveyors Act 1996. Other professional members are not regulated.

The Land Survey Board of Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean & Americas

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