Section 8Sec./Art. 8

Powers and duties of the board. – The Board shall exercise the following specific powers, functions, duties and responsibilities:

(a) To adopt, promulgate and administer the rules and regulations necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act;

(b) To supervise and regulate the registration, licensure and practice of professional interior designers in the Philippines;

(c) Administer oaths in connection with the administration of this Act;

(d) Issue, suspend, revoke, or reinstate the certificate of registration or professional license for the practice of the interior design profession;

(e) To adopt an official seal of the Board;

(f) Monitor the conditions affecting the practice of interior design and adopt such measures as may be deemed proper for the enhancement of the profession and/or the maintenance of high professional, ethical and technical standards;

(g) Ensure, in coordination with the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), that all higher educational instructions offering interior design comply with the policies, standards and requirements of the course prescribed by the CHED in the areas of curriculum, faculty, library and facilities;

(h) To prescribe and/or adopt a Code of Ethical and Professional Standards for the practice of the interior design profession;

(i) To hear and try administrative cases involving violations of this Act, its implementing rules and regulations, the Code of Ethics for Professional Interior Designers and for this purpose, to issue subpoena and subpoena duces tecum to secure the appearance of witnesses and the production of documents in connection therewith;

(j) Prescribe guidelines in the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program in coordination with the accredited and integrated association for professional interior designers;

(k) Insofar as applicable, adopt a program for the full computerization of the licensure examination;

(l) Prepare, adopt and issue the syllabi of the subjects for examination by determining and preparing the questions, which shall strictly be within the Scope of the syllabi of the subject for examination;

(m) Approve, issue, limit or revoke temporary license to practice interior design; and

(n) Discharge such other duties and functions as may be deemed necessary for the enhancement of the interior design profession and the upgrading, development and growth of interior design education in the Philippines.