It had been a statutory body in the United Kingdom constituted under section 5 of the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931.
Further amendments and changes enacted by the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 included abolition of the statutory Board of Architectural Education.
Subsection 5(1) of the 1931 Act had required the Board of Architectural Education to be appointed annually by the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) ("the Council").
This included: Subsection 5(2) of the 1931 Act had made it the duty of the Board (of Architectural Education) to recommend to the Council: The amendments to the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938 which were made by the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 included the abolition of the statutory Board of Architectural Education and renaming the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom as the Architects Registration Board.
By section 26, "the Board" in the Architects Act 1997 was henceforth to mean the registration body renamed as the Architects Registration Board (ARB), which had previously been named the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK).