REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1582 - AN
ACT TO REPEAL AND REPLACE SECTION TWENTY-FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED
FIVE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF
CIVIL ENGINEERING IN THE PHILIPPINES" |
Section 1.
Section twenty-four of Republic Act Numbered Five hundred forty-four is
hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof, the said section shall provide as
follows: "Sec. 24.
The practice of civil engineering is a professional service, admission
to which must be determined upon individual, personal qualifications.
Hence, no firm, partnership, corporation or association may be
registered or licensed as such for the practice of civil engineering:
Provided, however, That persons properly registered and licensed as
civil engineers may, among themselves or with a person or persons
properly registered and licensed as architects, form, and obtain
registration of, a firm, partnership or association using the term
"Engineers" or "Engineers and Architects," but, nobody shall be a
member or partner of such firm, partnership or association unless he is
a duly licensed civil engineer or architect, and the members who are
civil engineers shall only render work and services proper for a civil
engineer, as defined in this Act, and the members who are architects
shall also only render work and services proper for an architect, as
defined in the law regulating the practice of architecture; individual
members of such firms, partnership or association shall be responsible
for their own respective acts. Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.cralaw Approved: June 16, 1956 |