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").
Changes first enacted as Part III of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 included abolition of the statutory Board of Architectural Education, and renaming the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) with the name it now has: the Architects Registration Board (ARB).
From 1997 this body has been governed by the Architects Act 1997, which makes no mention of the Schools of Architecture.
The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 had been passed on 24 July 1996.
Its long title shows that it was a piece of departmental omnibus legislation: Part III of the Act relating to architects was repealed and reenacted as part of the Architects Act 1997, which was passed on 19 March 1997 under the Parliamentary rules for consolidating Acts.