RICS APC Enrolment Form MENA

Notes to consider before completing this form

Once completed please return in one PDF with all the required elements
APC Requirements
Please ensure that you read/download the most recent guides as they give full details of
the APC requirements, they are available at www.rics.org/apc. You must select the
APC pathway you wish to follow, because it will define your path to qualification.

APC candidates guide

APC guide for counsellors
Chosen pathway guide
APC Self-Assessment Form
The APC submission document and all the support available throughout your APC are
also found at www.rics.org/apc. If, after reading the guides, you still have questions
about the enrolment process, please contact your Membership Assessment team
apcme@rics.org that will be happy to help.

Period of membership
RICS regulations state that you can only remain a candidate of RICS for six years. If you
have not qualified as a professional member within this time, you will be contacted to
discuss your progress to RICS professional membership.

Placement student
If you have successfully completed a work placement as part of your degree please
include with your application written confirmation from your counsellor in order to use
this experience towards your APC. This will need to give the date that you started and
ended the work placement as well as confirmation that you were working within the APC
requirements.

Fees payable
All APC candidates must pay an APC subscription 1st January 31st December (2015
rate) 140
APC Enrolment Fee 352
Your application will not be complete until you have paid the appropriate fees.

How to pay
You can choose to pay by the following:

A card payment.

Bank Transfer

Those who have been notified they will be included on their employers corporate
payment scheme must still provide the full APC fees due to enable enrolment to
progress.

Please note:

Subscriptions are to be paid in full, there is no pro-rata applicable.

When enrolment takes place before 1 October you will pay the current years
subscription in full and you will then be required to pay the following years
subscription when this becomes due, on 1st January.

When enrolment takes place after 1 October, your subscription fee will cover the
period from October to December of the current year and all of the following year.

Following election to professional membership, you will be required to pay an

upgrade fee of 352 plus an Election Fee of 131

APC Application Form

Personal details

RICS membership number (if

known)

Title:

Family name:

Forename(s):
Nationality:
Telephone:

Home:

Mobile:

Date of Birth:
Email:
Gender:
Home address:

Post/Zip code:
County:
Country:
Country of residence:

Employment details
Company name:
Company address:

Post code:
County:
Country:

Male

Female

Prefer not to say

Telephone:

Work:
Mobile:

Direct Line:

Email:
Employment start
date:
Please select your preferred correspondence address (please note all
communication will be sent to this address):
Home

Business

Academic qualifications (Please provide details of your academic

qualifications)

Name of
university/institution
(include location)

Name of qualification
(Exact title e.g BSc
Buiding Surveying)

Date
started

Date
completed/
expected

Mode of study
(full/part
time/distance/work
placement)

Please note proof of qualifications will be required e.g. a copy of degree certificate /
enrolment confirmation (do not send originals)

Professional membership (Please provide details of your professional body

membership)

Name of organisation

Current grade

How was membership

achieved (e.g. examination)

Please note proof of membership will be required e.g. a membership confirmation

letter or a copy of achievement certificate

Year
gained

APC Pathway Please select your APC pathway below, this defines your path
to qualification and how you will be primarily assessed. (Please refer to
www.rics.org/apc for further guidance).

Select one pathway only.

Arts and Antiques

Building Control
Building Surveying
Built Infrastructure
Commercial Property
Environment
Facilities Management
Geomatics
Management
Consultancy
Mineral and Waste
Management

Planning and
Development
Project Management
Property Finance and
Investment
Quantity Surveying and
Construction
Research
Residential
Rural
Taxation Allowances
Valuation
Valuation of Businesses and
Intangible Assets

Professional experience:
(Please list all employer details to date, starting with the most recent, going back at least 10 years if
needed.)

6. Surveying Experience (Please confirm how many years of surveying

experience you have, including pre and post qualification experience)

Pre-qualification experience

Post qualification
experience

Total number of years

Professional experience:
(Please list all employer details to date, starting with the most recent, going back at least 10 years if needed.)

Period

Job title

Employer

Type
respo

(in de

7. Counsellor (Your counsellor must be a chartered surveyor, but does not have
to work at the same organisation as you)
Name:

RICS Membership Number:

Signature

8. Disability (If you consider yourself disabled please give further information
below)

9. Declaration
I have read the following and hereby undertake:

To comply and act in accordance with the Charter, Bye-Laws, Regulations and
Rules of RICS as they now exist, or as they may in the future be amended, and
also comply with such other requirements as Governing Council shall determine

To promote the Objects of RICS as far as in my power

Not at any time after ceasing to be a member to use or permit to be used in

conjunction with my name, or name of any organisation with which I may at any
time be associated, any designation or expression denoting or suggesting
membership or any connection with RICS

To pay promptly any monies due to RICS, including but not limited to any fee,
subscription, levy, arrears, fine or other penalty, or re-imbursement in accordance
with any scheme of compensation, or in respect of any goods or services
commissioned by me from RICS

To declare any criminal conviction within 30 days

That should I wish to terminate my membership, to notify the Chief Executive in

writing

I confirm that I have disclosed to RICS full details of the following where
applicable:

any charge or conviction of a criminal offence where the penalty could be

imprisonment, unless it is now a spent conviction as provided in the
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 or the equivalent in my jurisdiction

any pending disciplinary proceedings or adverse findings made against me by

another regulatory body within the last 3 years

I am not an undischarged bankrupt

I have not in the last three years been subject to any insolvency proceedings or
other arrangement with creditors in respect of my debts (such as an Insolvency
Voluntary Arrangement).

If at any time RICS discovers that you have failed to disclose any of the above or that
you have provided false information it will have the right to terminate your membership
with immediate effect (with no further obligation to refund any subscription or other fees).
I understand and accept that I am accountable for the truth of this declaration.
Confirmation of any disclosures (If you wish to send this information confidentially then
please write to RICS Regulation, Surveyor Court, Westwood Way, Coventry, CV4 8JE,
UK ):
Name in full:
Signature:

Date:

11. Data Protection Act

RICS is registered as a data controller under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998.
When you sign the application form, you give consent to the storage and processing of
your personal data by RICS for legitimate purposes, which shall include any purpose
ancillary to or necessary for the processing of your application for the APC/Associate
Assessment. This shall include sharing your data with assessors and using email and
applications such as Turnitin (plagiarism detection software).
RICS will use and store your personal information that is collected from you by us to
deal with your enquiry and membership requirements.
For RICS members, your personal information will be used for a) administering your
membership including sending renewals, b) sending compulsory communications such
as those relating to regulation and conduct, c) sending practice and guidance notes, d)
AGM information, e) for any other reason related to your membership and f) as outlined
in our cookie policy.
For non-members, we will use your personal information to a) deal with your enquiry, b)
supply you with information regarding an event, conference, training, products or
services as requested, c) manage your preferences and requests and d) as outlined in
our cookie policy.
In order to do this we may contact you by email, post, phone or SMS.

In providing your personal information, you agree to your personal information being
processed by other RICS offices around the world for the purposes set out in this notice,
including offices outside of the EEA in countries which are not deemed to have the same
level of protection of personal information.
Furthermore, RICS would like to use the personal information that you have provided to
us in relation to the communications described below (including by email/telephone,
where appropriate).
Please tick the relevant boxes below:
If you do not wish to receive additional communications from RICS about membership and the
profession, tick here
If you do not wish to receive additional communications from RICS about RICS conferences,
events, products, services and training (some of which may complement your CPD requirements),
tick here
For members only, if you do not wish to receive additional communications from RICS detailing
offers from third parties with whom we have negotiated special deals for members*, tick here
RICS would like to pass your details (including email address and phone number) to selected third
parties pre-approved by RICS so that they can let you know from time to time about their offers,
products and services. Please tick here if you do wish to receive communications from these third
parties by email, by post and by phone
(*For a full list of RICS affiliated third party partners visit www.rics.org/benefitsplus)

Member diversity privacy notice

RICS are actively monitoring the diversity of our members to ensure we have a true
understanding of those working in the profession. To do this we are collecting and
monitoring information on the age, gender, disability and ethnic origin of the
membership. As the data we are collecting is personal data it is collected and held
strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. This information will be used
purely for statistical purposes and will not be passed onto other organisations. Please
note you do not have to provide the data requested and have the right to request a copy
of the personal information RICS holds on you. If you do wish to do so or have any
questions regarding RICS diversity monitoring please contact RICS Contact Centre on
contactrics@rics.org
The contract between RICS and its members shall be governed by and construed in all
respects in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties irrevocably
agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales,
irrespective of any other factor including (but not limited to) where a member practices
as a surveyor.

Please select your ethnic origin

White
Indian
Pakistani
Bangladeshi

Other Asian
Black Caribbean
Black African
Other Black

Chinese
Other ethnic group

Please return your completed application via email to apcme@rics.org. Please do

not include card details with your application.
Office use only:
Assessment:

Payment
method

Preliminary
No
Structured
training
Card
payment

ST 12
Bank
Transfer

Academic proof
Professional qualification proof

ST 24