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RIBA Chartered membership
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ARB vs RIBA: Statutory Register vs Chartered Membership
ARB is the statutory regulator and the legal register — registration is mandatory to call yourself an architect. RIBA Chartered membership is a voluntary professional-body credential on a separate roll. They are different credentials on different registers and must never be treated as interchangeable.
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RIBA Chartered membership (the post-nominal RIBA) is a voluntary professional-body credential on a separate roll — not the statutory ARB register. A substantial minority of registered architects are not RIBA Chartered members, so the two must never be treated as interchangeable.
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