Architects Registration Board of Victoria v Hutchison [1925] HCA 1

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[HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.)

THE ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BOARD

OW VICTORIA). Sener ene +} APPELLANT; ResPoNDENT, AND HUTCHISON 2... Oe

APPLICANT,

ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF VICTORIA.

H.C. or A. Architect—Registration—Powers of Board of Registration—Conclusiveness of finding 1925. of fact—Mandamus—Architects Registration Act 1922 (Vict.) (No. 3207), secs. od 4, 6, 7, 10, 13. q

MELBOURNE,

'March 2, 31 By sec. 7 (1) of the Architects Registration Act 1922 (Viet.) it is provided — z that "Any of the following persons who applies in the preseribed form to

Se (tp be registered under this Act may on payment of the prescribed fee be so

Rich and registered if the" Architects Registration Board constituted by the Act "is Starke JJ. ay z s satisfied that such person has attained the age of twenty-one years and is

of good character, namely: Any person who . . . (c) has for a period —

of at least one year before the first day of January one thousand nine hundred _ and twenty-three been bona fide engaged in Victoria in the practice of the profession of an architect and has made application for registration within six months after that date."

An application by the respondent for registration had been refused by tl Board on the ground only that he had not for a period of at least one before Ist January 1923 been bona fide engaged in Victoria in the practi of the profession of an architect.

Held, that mandamus would not lie directing the Board to register th

respondent :

By Knox C.J. and Starke J., on the ground that the Board was entrust with authority and jurisdiction to investigate and determine whether

C.L.R.) OF AUSTRALIA.

appellant was within sec. 7 (1) (c) of the Act and, as no appeal was given by the Act, the Board's determination given honestly and without reference to extraneous circumstances which the Board was not entitled to consider was final ;