S.L. 622.2 Art. 3Responsibilities and functions of the Board.

(1) Apart from the responsibilities established in article 11 of the Act, the Board shall also have the following responsibilities:

(a) to maintain and to publish, not later than three (3) months after the end of each year, such register and sub-registers, referred to in articles 4 to 9 and 16 of the Act in the Gazette and on its website or the website of any other designated public agency, as well as on the IMI, in accordance with prescribed regulations;

(b) to notify the Kamra tal-Periti about any new warrant-holder within one (1) week from attaining a warrant to practice the profession;

(c) to verify that the formal academic qualifications obtained and the professional training undertaken by a Maltese national, satisfy the prescribed regulations for attaining a warrant to practice the profession in Malta;

(d) to verify that a national of a Member State has the right to access to the profession and the right to use the title of Perit Arkitett subject to the submission of evidence of formal qualifications issued by the designated authorities of the Member State of origin or the Member State of domicile and of the certificates listed in Annex V, in conformity with the reference year that appears in the said Annex, and in accordance with prescribed regulations;

(e) to verify that a national of a Member State has the right to access to the profession and the right to use the title of Perit Inġinier Ċivili, subject to the submission of evidence of formal qualifications issued by designated authorities of the Member State of origin or the Member State of domicile and of the relative certificates, in accordance with prescribed regulations;

(f) to decide on an application submitted by a national of a Member State for authorisation to practice the profession in Malta on a temporary and occasional basis, in accordance with prescribed regulations; and

(g) to verify evidence of formal professional qualifications obtained in a third country, by a citizen of a third country.

(2) The Board shall have the authority to:

(a) determine the form and organise the holding, of any examination referred to in the Act;

(b) assess professional traineeship undertaken for the purpose of the Act;

(c) request, in the case of justified doubts, the confirmation of authenticity of attestations and evidence of formal qualifications;

(d) request information from designated authorities of Member States confirming whether any applicant, seeking to establish himself in Malta or to offer a service, is not suspended or prohibited from exercising the profession as a result of serious professional misconduct or conviction of criminal offences related to the exercise of professional activities.