RICS has decided to increase the number of alternative chartered designations which defined categories of Chartered Surveyors, who have joined and maintain their membership of the requisite Faculties, are or will be entitled to use. Where a Faculty holds more than one designation in respect of which the Member meets the criteria for its use, he or she may nonetheless use of only one of those designations.

Subject to the above, the present position on existing and proposed rights in favour of such Chartered Surveyors is set out below. This is followed by brief information about the right of firms who have the right to call themselves “Chartered Surveyors" to use the equivalent alternative chartered designations for firms.

In addition to the following entitlement to use the Alternative Designation, any Chartered Surveyor in a Faculty who does not satisfy any of the criteria set out below may obtain the right to use its alternative chartered designation by passing the Final Assessment of that Faculty’s Assessment of Professional Competence or an equivalent National or Scottish Vocational Qualification (or appropriate units therefrom) and, on so doing, satisfying the Institution that he/she has practised its core and/or optional competencies for 300 full working days spread fairly evenly over the preceding three years.

Use of alternative chartered designation by firms
Subject to certain provisos, firms and companies in practice as surveyors may call themselves “Chartered Surveyors" if fifty per cent or more of their partners or Directors are Chartered Surveyors.

For each of the alternative chartered designations referred to in this Paper the plural (e.g. “Chartered Arts and Antiques Surveyors") is an alternative designation which may be used by those firms and companies entitled to call themselves “Chartered Surveyors" where there is one partner or Director who is entitled to use the alternative chartered designation in the singular.

Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor
a) Chartered Surveyors in this Faculty who were in the General Practice Division on 31 December 2000 and who submit (not before 1 January 2002 or after 31 December 2005), declarations and satisfy the Institution that they have practised core and/or optional Competence of the Faculty’s Assessment of Professional Competence for the equivalent of 300 full working days spread fairly evenly over the preceding three years will be able after 1 January 2002 to call themselves “Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor”.

b) Chartered Surveyors in this Faculty who have passed the General Practice or Commercial Property Assessment of Professional Competence route since 1 January 2001 may now call themselves “Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor”, provided that they take up and thereafter maintain membership of the Faculty within two years of such attainment.

Where a member qualified through the route in paragraph (b), no application is required to use the alternative designation.

A member who wishes to use the alternative designation ‘Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor’ who meets the criteria in paragraph (a) must complete and return an application form and fee (£63.63 + VAT = £75) for approval.