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Fake architects face Sh5m fine, jail in new law
The Bill prohibits a person from practicing as a registered architect or an architectural technician unless the person has been issued a valid practicing certificate.
Individuals who pretend to be trained architects risk a Sh5 million fine or three years in jail, if MPs approve a new Bill currently before the National Assembly.
The Architects Bill, 2026, also imposes hefty penalties on those who falsify documents in a bid to secure registration as trained architects.
Those found to have made any false entry in, or falsification of, any register or record, face a Sh1 million fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both.
The Bill prohibits a person from practicing as a registered architect or an architectural technician unless the person has been issued a valid practicing certificate.
“A person who, not being eligible to be registered under this Act, uses any title appropriate to a person so registered, or hold himself out directly or indirectly as being so registered, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding Sh5 million, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both,” the Bill states.
“A person who wilfully makes or causes to be made any false entry in, any register or any record kept under this Act, or who presents or attempts to present himself or any person to be registered under this Act, by making or producing or causing to be made or produced a false or fraudulent representation...commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding Sh1 million or to imprisonment to a term not exceeding two years, or to both.”
The Bill, sponsored by Bumula MP Wanami Wamboka ,stipulates that a person convicted of an offence under the proposed Act, for which no penalty is provided, will be liable to a fine not exceeding Sh1 million or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or to both.
The proposed law seeks to amend the Architects and Quantity Surveyors Act, Cap 525, to establish the Architects Council to replace the Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors.
The Bill, seeks to provide for the training, registration and licensing of architects and architectural technicians, as well as the regulation of architectural practice.
It also targets to establish an Institute of Architects, its Council, its powers and functions, as well as an Examination Board.
