(1) The objects of the Corporation are-

(a) to provide consultancy services in respect of all works required by or on behalf of the Government in the fields of engineering, building and architecture, urban and regional planning and development;

(b) to carry out technical studies in planning, designing as well as the supervision of such infrastructural works as will assist the economic and social development of the country;

(c) to undertake the investigation, survey, design, administration and management both in Ghana and elsewhere of all kinds of architectural and engineering consultancy works, whether public or private including the design of houses, highways, airfields, bridges, harbour, water supplies and sewerage systems, soils and foundations investigation;

(d) to undertake the testing of construction materials, surveying and mapping, valuation and appraisal of property, and design of irrigation works;

(e) to carry on such other activities as appear to the Corporation to be conducive or incidental to the attainment of all or any of the foregoing objects.

(2) The Corporation may charge fees in respect of any of its objects specified in subsection (1) of this section.

(3) No Ministry, or Department of State, Government agency or statutory corporation shall engage the services of any consultant for any work falling within the objects of the Corporation or within its competence without the prior approval in writing of the Commissioner.

(4) The Commissioner may on the advice of the Corporation give directions in writing to any Ministry, Department of State, Government agency or statutory corporation with regard to the engagement of consultants in respect of all technical works, and such Ministry, Department of State, agency or corporation shall comply with such directions.