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Guidance notes provide advice to RICS members. Where procedures are recommended for specific professional tasks, these are intended to embody 'best practice', that is, procedures which in the opinion of the RICS meet a high standard of professional competence.
Members are not required to follow the advice and recommendations contained in a guidance note. However, when an allegation of professional negligence is made against a surveyor, the court is likely to take account of the contents of any relevant guidance notes published by the RICS in deciding whether or not the surveyor has acted with reasonable competence.
In addition, guidance notes are relevant to professional competence in that each surveyor should be up to date and should have informed him or herself of new or updated guidance notes within a reasonable time of their promulgation.
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