Its long title is: Amendments which had been made by Part III of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996[4] included (subsection 118(1)) renaming the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) as the Architects Registration Board (ARB).

But under subsection 13(2) any such regulations would have no force or validity unless previously approved by the Privy Council in the manner prescribed by section 13.

The directive of 10 June 1985 was headed "on the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in architecture, including measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services".

That abolishing of obstacles has brought in its train a series of directives by which the EEC/EC/EU had been carrying out its functions vis-à-vis member states in connection with the mutual recognition of the qualifications of architects and certain other professions.

This Directive defines "competent authority" among other things as a body empowered by a Member State specifically to receive the applications and to take the decisions referred to in the Directive; and "regulated profession" as a professional activity one of the modes of pursuit of which is subject by virtue of legislative provision to the possession of specific professional qualifications.

When the Warne Report[7] was published in 1993, it was found that its principal recommendation was abolition of protection of the title "architect" and the disbanding of ARCUK.