GUIDELINES ON LETTER OF RELEASE - GC No.2/2007

This General Circular replaces the current General Circular No. 1/1998 pertaining to the above Guidelines.

A Professional Architect on being approached or instructed to proceed with professional work for which he knows or can ascertain by making reasonable enquiries that another Professional Architect has been engaged by the registered proprietor (Note 1) and/or his bona-fide agent (Note 2) of the site or part of the site concerned to provide the full basic services or any part thereof as provided in the Architects (Scale of Minimum Fees) Rules 1986 shall, before proceeding with such work, communicate in writing with that Professional Architect and obtain a letter of release from him or obtain such letter through his prospective client, provided that this requirement may be waived at the discretion of the Board.