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 Land Surveyor
Chartered Surveyors in this Faculty who on 31 December 2000 were entitled to call themselves “Chartered Land Surveyor” may continue to do so. (Note: Chartered Land Surveyors at 31 December 2000 who do not join this Faculty by 31 December 2001 will lose the right to use this alternative designation permanently unless they have or achieve such other attainments as the Faculty Board may decide to specify).
Chartered Surveyors in this Faculty who have passed the Geomatics Assessment of Professional Competence route since 1 January 2001 may call themselves “Chartered Land Surveyor”, provided that they take up and thereafter maintain membership of the Faculty within two years of such attainment.
Chartered Hydrographic Surveyor
Chartered Surveyors in this Faculty who have achieved specialist hydrographic options of the Faculty’s Assessment of Professional Competence will, from 1 January 2002 or such later date as may be determined, be able to call themselves “Chartered Hydrographic Surveyor” where (a) in the case of Chartered Surveyors at 31 December 2000 they claim these achievements in writing to the Institution by 31 December 2002 and the Institution accepts that they have attained them; or (b)where they qualified after 1 January 2001 and take up and thereafter maintain membership of the Faculty within two years of such attainment.
For those who qualify to use the designation under (b) no application is required. A member who meets the criteria in (a) and wishes to use the alternative designation ‘Chartered Hydrographic Surveyor’ must complete and return an application form and fee (£63.83 + VAT = £75) for approval.
Chartered Engineering Surveyor
A recent addition to the Geomatics alt.designation portfolio, Chartered Engineering Surveyor was agreed as a amendment to bye-law 4.3 by RICS Governing Council 2004.
In order to use the alternative designation Chartered Engineering Surveyor, a member must satisfy one of the (i) – (iii) below: (i)They must have been a Fellow (FInstCES) or a Professional Member (MInstCES) of the Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors on 24 May 2004; or (ii)They satisfy the Chief Executive on application by 1 January 2006 that they have practised Engineering Surveying competencies for the equivalent of 300 days during the 3 years previous to their application; or (iii)They have qualified through the Geomatics or Construction Faculties’ Assessment of Professional Competence, taking the Engineering Surveying Competency, since 1 January 2001 and subsequently joined and remain a member of either the Geomatics and/or Construction Faculty.
To apply, contact RICS at contactrics@rics.org or call (0)870 333 1600
