(1) Subject to paragraph 18, sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph and to paragraph 22 of this Decree, every person commits an offence, who being a person carrying on business in Ghana and not being an architect registered under this Decree, uses or causes or permits to be used in connection with his name under which he carries on business the word "architect", or "architecture", or "architectural" or any words, initials, or abbreviation of words intended to cause or which may reasonably cause any person to believe that the person using the same is an architect.[As amended by the Architects (Amendment) Decree, 1972 (NRCD 75), s(a)].

(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall apply to the use of the term "naval architect" or the term "landscape architect" by any person in connection with the profession or calling so described.