Laws in Interior Design

In Partial Fulfilment Of Requirements

In Architectural Interiors

September 22, 2021

 Table of Contents

Title Page …………………………………………………………………………1

Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………..2

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………….3

Article I ……………………………………………………………………………4-7

Article II ……………………………………………………………………………7-10

Article III …………………………………………………………………………..11-14

Article IV …………………………………………………………………………..15-22

Article V ……………………………………………………………………………23-25

Conclusion & Recommendation ………………………………………………….26

References ………………………………………………………………………….27
Introduction

Interior design is the function, safety, and best of indoors areas of personal
homes, public buildings, and commercial enterprise or institutional facilities,
along with offices, restaurants, retail establishments, hospitals, hotels, and
theaters. They additionally plan the interiors of current systems which are present
process maintenance or expansion. Most indoors designers specialize. For
example, a few may also deal with residential layout, whilst others awareness on
commercial enterprise layout. Still others may also specialize similarly through
specializing in specific rooms, along with kitchens or baths. With a client’s tastes,
needs, and price range in mind, indoors designers put together drawings and
specs for non-load-bearing indoors construction, furnishings, lights, and finishes.
Increasingly, designers are in the usage of computer systems to plot layouts, due
to the fact computer systems make it clean to extrude plans to consist of
thoughts acquired from the client. Interior designers additionally layout lights and
architectural details along with crown molding, integrated bookshelves, or
cabinets coordinate colors, and pick furniture, ground coverings, and window
treatments. Interior designers need to lay out area to comply to Federal, State,
and nearby laws, which include constructing codes. Designs for public regions
additionally need to meet accessibility requirements for the disabled and the
elderly.

Interior layout law units the requirements of exercise to guard purchasers.

Legislation allows purchasers recognize they may be running with qualified,
accountable professionals. They recognize they may be running with designers
who use the modern health, safety, and welfare information. And to be clarify
that they would not break that law.

It's reach in all laws that knowing the proper laws before decided to design and
make it clear to the designer.
 ARTICLE 1

Section 1. Title

This Act will be called the "Philippine Interior Design Act of 2012″

Section 2. Statement of the policy

The State acknowledges the essential position of the indoors layout career in
state building. Towards this end, the State shall sell the sustained improvement
of expert indoors designers, whose technical skills were decided via way of
means of sincere and credible licensure examinations and whose requirements
of expert provider and exercise are across the world diagnosed and taken into
consideration globally competitive, added approximately via way of means of
regulatory measures and human useful resource applications and sports that
foster their export increase and advancement.

Section 3. Objectives

This Act provides for and shall govern:

The examination, registration and licensure of expert indoors designers;

The supervision, manipulate and law of the exercise of indoors layout;

The improvement of the expert competence of indoors designers through

persevering with expert education.

The integration of the indoors layout profession.

Section 4. Licensure Required for Design Professional

Defination

 Interior Design – is the technological know-how and artwork of planning,

specifying, choosing and organizing the surface finishes and substances
together with furniture, furnishings and furniture and different objects of
decoration of an architectural indoors for the cause of space allocations to
suit, decorate and meet the intended function, motion and individual for
which the interior of the constructing is designed.
 Professional Interior Designer – refers to a natural person who holds a
legitimate certificate of registration and legitimate expert identity card
issued through the board of Interior Design and the Professional
Regulation Commission pursuant to this Act.

Scope of the Professional Practice of Interior Design

 The exercise of indoors layout is the act of planning, designing, specifying,

supervising and giving general administration and accountable path to the
functional, orderly and aesthetic association and for the enhancement of
indoors spaces. It shall include, however now no longer restrained to, the
following activities:
 Schematic indoors designs, layout development, expert settlement files
and programming of construction phases.
 Preparation of indoors layout plans, layout drawings, indoors production
details, and technical specifications.
 The exercise of indoors layout shall additionally encompass all other
works, tasks and sports which require the professional competence of the
expert interior designer, such as coaching of indoors layout subjects
Who may Practice Interior Design in the Philippines

The Philippine Interior Design Law (RA 8534) stipulates that only Filipino Citizens
who handed the Licensure Examinations for Interior Design and/or who've been
registered and licensed with the aid of using the Professional Regulation
Commission.

How may Foreign Interior Designer or ConsultantPractice in the Philippines?

 By Law, an overseas Interior Designer can't practice his career nor be

issued a transient license to practice Interior Design or consultancy, nor
be entitled to any of the rights and privileges beneath neath this Act unless
the country which he's a topic or citizen specifically lets in Filipino Interior
Designers to practice inside its territorial limits at the identical foundation
as the topics or residents of such overseas.

 Foreign nationals who've won access in the Philippines to carry out expert
offerings as interior designers or experts in overseas-funded or assisted
projects of the government, or hired or engaged by Filipino or overseas
contractors or non-public firms, shall before assuming his duties,
capabilities and responsibilities as indoors fashion dressmaker or
consultant, stable a unique brief allow from preprofessional Regulation
Commission through the Board of Interior Design, to exercise his career in
connection with the undertaking to which he was commissioned: Provided,
That positive situations are satisfied as follows:

(a) That he's a citizen or difficulty of a rustic which specially lets in Filipino
experts to exercise his career inside their territorial limits, at the
identical foundation because the topics or residents of such foreign
state or country.
 (b) That he's legally certified to exercise indoors designing his personal
country and that his know-how is necessary and positive to our
country. Specifically in the aspects of generation switch and
specialization.
(c) Foreign nationals will be required to paintings with an established
Filipino counterpart/organization that has been in existence for at the
least ten (10) years previous to the start of this project. All expert fees,
offerings, and expenses of documentation touching on the project shall
be shared with the aid of using each overseas and Filipino interior
designers, together with liabilities and taxes because of the Philippine
government, if any, in line with their participation in, or expert offerings
rendered to the project.

ARTICLE II

ADMINISTRATION and ENFORCEMENT

Section 5. Title

 General. Chapter 2, Sections 201 as much as Section 216inclusive of the

National Building Code – NBC is adapted verbatim on this referral Interior
Design Code and shall have mandatory pressure and impact as though
completely embodied hereunder. Amplifications in any of its unique
provisions, objectively to cope-up with the modern day improvements in
technological know-how and technology shall apply.
 Objectively, as a referral Code below the purview of NBC, a number of the
authentic provisions and measures there in a complimentary and well-
matched with the segment 102,Declaration of Policy of stated regulation
and greater constant in the practice of the Interior Design career as
 embodied inRA8534, The Interior Design Law which shall have equal
force and impact as a referral code embodied with inside the regulation.

Section 6. Purpose and Scope of this National InteriorDesign Code

 This Code shall follow to the layout and construction, repair, alteration,
maintenance and use of any constructing and other structures for human
habitation and all different sports of human endeavor.
 Where exceptional sections on this Code are in warfare as to provisions,
systems, methods, procedures, materials, and site assemblies as
embodied in NBC, the maximum restrictive shall govern. When warfare
among standard requirements and precise necessities occurs. The
precise requirements shall be applicable.
 Since this Code is designed to be like-minded with NFC another relevant
National Laws of the Philippines or the latest version of the universally
frequent provisions in uniform Building Code, the regulatory measures or
provisions which can be maximum restrictive shall follow as can also
additionally be ascertained in writing via way of means of the Secretary of
Public Works.
 Furthermore, with inside the absence of any regulatory provisions in this
Code as in modern or innovative design, the case shall be noted for
approval via way of means of the Secretary of Public Work sand
Highways.

Section 7. Application to Existing Buildings and OtherStructures

 General: Existing Building and different systems' problem to additions,

alterations, maintenance or renovations shall comply with all necessities of
this code as to regulatory measure son kind of occupies and/or kind of
construction, fire safety, required quantity of departures and protection
measures in construction assemblies, and such will be nicely finished in
 away as to keep its structural integrity, stability, soundness, apart from the
Interior Design individual and legacy of homes of ancient significance

 Historic homes challenge to alteration, repairs, renovations, additions,

upgrading important for the preservation, restoration, rehabilitation or
persevered use or want now no longer agree to all necessities of this
code. However, such shall be challenge to law of the authorities agencies
concerned just like the National Commission for Culture and the Arts
(NCCA), National Historical Institute (NHI) or National Museum, the
DPWH (via the advice for approval of the PIID Interior Design Code
Committee)

Section 8. Seal and Use of Seal - A duly registered interior clothier shall signal
and affix the seal permitted via way of means of the Board of Interior Design on
all plans and specs organized via way of means of him, or beneath neath his
direct supervision.

 No officer or worker of the government, chartered cities, provinces and

municipalities now or hereafter charged with the enforcement of laws,
ordinances or rules relating to the development or alteration of the
interiors of buildings, shall receive or recommend any indoors plans or
specifications which have now no longer been organized and submitted in
complete accord with the provisions of this Act, nor shall any charge be
approved with the aid of using this kind of officer for any work, the plans
and specifications of that have now no longer been so organized, signed
and sealed with the aid of using a duly certified indoors.
Section 9. Diction of License and Professional Receipt. The indoors fashion
dressmaker will be required to suggest his professional license wide variety, the
period of validity, along with the professional tax receipt wide variety at the files
he signs, uses or troubles in reference to the exercise of his profession.

Section 10. Pre-Design Services

Design Services

Schedule of Minimum Basic Fees

Payment Schedule

Owner’s Responsibility

Comprehensive Planning services

Construction Services

Design-Build Services

Selection of the Interior Designer and

System of Remuneration

Section 11. Enforcement by National Government Agencies (NGA’s), Local

Government Units (LGU’s), Administratorsof Special Economic Zones (SEZ),
Administrators of Special Administrative Zones (SAZ), Department of Interior and
LocalGovernment (DILG) and others.

 In instances in which no duly-registered Interior Designer are available

with inside the NGA, LGU, SEZ and SAZ workplaces to properly interpret
and put into effect this Code, any energetic member of the APO and its
Chapters can be deputized through the LGU authority to perform stated
 characteristic via a Memorandum of Agreement between the APO and the
DILG

ARTICLE III

PERMITS AND INSPECTION

Section 12. Ancillary Permit for Interior Design Works

 The Ancillary Permits duly signed and sealed with the aid of using the
corresponding experts and the plans and specifications will be submitted
collectively with the duly notarized software for Building Permit. The
Building Permits null and void if now no longer followed with the aid of
using the Ancillary Permits. The prescribed Ancillary and different
Accessory Permit/forms shall likewise be used every time applicable. The
Ancillary Permits are the following:

-Interior Design
-Architectural Permit
-Civil/Structural Permit
-Electrical Permit
-Mechanical Permit
-Sanitary Permit
-Plumbing Permit
-Electronics Permit
  General. Chapter 3, Sections 301 to Section 309 inclusive of the National
Building Code (NBC) is customized verbatim in this referral National
Interior Design Code and shall have mandatory pressure and impact as
though completely embodied hereunder.
 No person, corporation or corporation, inclusive of any agency
instrumentality of the authorities shall alter, repair, demolish, renovate,
move, or convert any shape or cause the equal to be performed without
first acquiring an Interior Design Construction Permit consequently from
the Office of the Building Official of the LGU having jurisdiction over the
locality. Government corporations and/or Civic initiatives exempted from
payments of stated permits, as furnished for in PD 1096-NBCshall
accumulate the equal from the OBO of the LGU for purposes of report to
envision obligation for the building’s layout and creation beneath neath the
law.

Section 13. Application for Ancillary Permit for Interior Design Construction

 In order to attain an Ancillary Permit for Interior Design Construction the

applicant shall post an accomplished form duly signed and sealed best
with the aid of using the Interior Designer.
 All plans, Specification, and all different Contract Documents to be
submitted as required with inside the processing of the Permit shall be
signed and sealed with the aid of using the Interior Designer who prepared
them.
 Floor Plan
Show all flooring along with basements. Show all rooms, with their use,
finishes, universal dimensions, and places of all structural factors and
openings. Show all doorways and windows, along with door and window
schedules, if applicable. All hearth place assemblies and vicinity and
occupancy separations will be shown
  Reflected Ceiling
Show all electrical fixtures, diffusers and grills, sprinklerheads, and other
required devices as applicable.
 Electrical Fixture Location Plan
Show all energy and lighting fixtures plans, along with all interior
electrical furniture and devices.(Note: Now a part of the electrical
design can be delegated via way of means of the layout expert through
a“overall performance specification”

Section 14. Processing of Building Permits

 The Interior Designer shall accomplish and post the Ancillary Permit for
Interior Design Construction to the Office of the Building Official (OBO) as
in keeping with the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of the
National Building Code.
 Incomplete facts or information with inside the above utility for an Ancillary
Permit for Interior Design Construction shall be returned to the Interior
Designer till satisfactorily completed.

Section 15. Validity of Interior Design Construction Permit

 Pursuant to PD 1096 the NBC and its IRR, an Ancillary Permit for Interior
Design Construction issued beneath neath provisions of the NBC shall
expire and grow to be null and void if the paintings therein isn't always
began inside a length of one year from the date of issuance of such
permit, or if the works legal is suspended or deserted at any time after it
has been begun, for a length of a hundred and twenty days.
 The issuance of an Ancillary Permit for Interior Design Construction shall
now no longer be construed as an approval or authorization to the
 applicant to dismiss or violate any of the provisions of this Code or the
NBC.
 Any deviation, illness or extrude with inside the authentic construction
plans, for which the Ancillary Permit for Interior Design Construction is
issued will be legal in writing or corrected simplest via way of means of the
Interior Designer who prepared, signed and sealed them. He shall
countersign all corrections and adjustments made there on; indicating the
date/s therein and all such data will be recorded with inside the official
Building Construction Log Book as required beneath neath PD 1096-NBC

Section 16. Non-Issuance, Suspension or Revocation of the Interior Design

Construction Permit

 Pursuant to PD1096-NBC and its IRR, the Building Official may order
or reason the non-issuance, suspension or revocation of Interior
Design Construction Permit for any oral of the subsequent reasons:

- Errors located with inside the Plans, Specifications, and other Construction
Documents.
- Incorrect or misguided records or records located in the application
(Supplied with inside the Ancillary Permit interior Design Construction).
- Non-compliance with the Terms and Conditions of permit.
- Notice of non-issuance, suspension or revocation of interior Design
Construction Permit shall usually be made by the Building Official in
writing, pointing out the motives or grounds therefore.

Section 17. On site Inspection and Supervision

 The workplace of the Building Official (OBO) shall screen the progress of
the Construction operations or paintings for the faithful compliance with all
the conditions, policies and regulations governing the issuance of the
 Interior Design Construction Permit and act on any violation therein by
stopping, suspending, and/or ordering the necessary rectification or
correction of any faults.
 Interior Designer for his safety beneath neath Civil Code CC Article 1723
shall periodically investigate the construction operations to look to it that
the works are carried out in faithful compliance with all the creation files for
which interior Design Construction Permit became issued as stipulated in
this Code and/or PD 1096-NBC,

ARTICLE IV

LIGHT AND VENTILATION

Section 18. General Requirements on Natural Light and Ventilation

 Subject to the provisions of the Civil Code of the Philippines on

Easements of Light and View, and to the provisions of this a part of the
Code, each constructing will be designed, constructed, and prepared to
offer ok mild and ventilation.
 All homes shall face a road or public alley or a private street which has
been duly approved.
 No constructing will be altered nor organized which will lessen the size of
any room or the relative location of home windows to much less than that
supplied for homes below this Code, or to create an additional room,
except such extra room conforms to the requirements of this Code.
 No constructing will be enlarged in order that the size of the required
courtroom docket or backyard could be much less than that prescribed for
such constructing.
 For Natural Ventilation and Thermal Comfort Analysis, useComputational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to integrate effectivenatural ventilation strategies
 into building design. Detailedanalysis of airflows in buildings and use of
natural flowpatterns can enhance thermal comfort and air quality.

Section 19. Measurement of Site Ocupancy

 The size of web website online occupancy or lot occupancy shall be taken
on the floor degree and will be exceptional of courts, yards, and mild wells.
 Courts, yards, and mild wells will be measured clean of all projections from
the partitions enclosing such wells and yards with the exception to roof
leaders, wall copings, sills, or steel fire escapes now no longer exceeding
1.20 meters in width.

Section 20. Percentage of Site Occupancy

 Minimum site occupancy will be ruled with the aid of using the use, type of
construction, and top of the constructing and the use, area, nature, and
region of the web website online; and situation to the provisions of the
neighborhood zoning necessities and according to the rules and
guidelines promulgated with the aid of using the Secretary.

Section 21. Ceiling Heights

 Habitable rooms supplied with synthetic air flow shall have ceiling heights
now no longer much less than 2.forty meters (8’ –0”) measured from the
finish floor as much as the ceiling. Provided that for homes of greater than
one story, the minimal top of the primary story will be 2.70meters (9’ – 0”)
and that for the 2nd story 2.forty meters and the succeeding stories shall
have an unobstructed common head room of clearance of now no longer
much less than 2.10 meters (7’ –0”) above the finish floor. Above said
rooms with simplest 2.70 meters.
 Mezzanine flooring – Area of mezzanine (a ground among a prime
floorand its ceiling) shall now no longer exceed 50% of the place above
 and belowit.Mezzanine flooring shall have a minimal clean ceiling peak of
1.80meters above and under it.

Section 22. Size and Dimension of Room (Natural Veltilation)

 Rooms for human habitations shall be of minimum area of 6 sq.mts.(64

sq.ft.) with at least dimension of 2.00 meters (7’ -0”).
 Kitchens 3.00 sq.mts with at least dimensions of 1.50 mts. ( 5’-0”).
 Bath and toilet – 1.20 sq.mts with at least dimension of 0.90 mt. (3’-0”)

Section 23. Air Space Requirements in Determining theSize of Rooms (Natural

Ventilation)

 Minimum air space shall be provided as follows:

- School rooms 3.00 cu.mts with1.00 sq.mt. of floor area per person
- ]Workshops, factories and offices 12 cu.mts. of airspace per person
- Habitable rooms – 14.00 cu.mts. of airspace per person

Section 24. Window Openings

 Every room for human occupancy or meant for any use shall beprovided
with a window or home windows with a minimal clearventilating vicinity of
now no longer much less than ten percentage 10% of the ground vicinity
ofthe room – such window shall open without delay into an open
court,yard, public road or alley, public park or open water courses
 Rooms provided with at least five percent 5% of the floor area oft he room.
 Exceptions: Required windows may open into a roofed porchwhere the
porch:

- Abut a court, yard, public street or alley or open water course andother
public spaces.
- Has a ceiling height of not less than 2.70 mt.
- Has one of the longer side at least 65% open an obstructed toanother
space that is properly ventilated.

Section 25. Skylights

 Skylights whilst supplied for atop to cowl up vent stores stated in 1.2
above will be supplied with constant louver openings identical to the most
required clean region of the shaft.

Veltilation Skylights

 In instances in which home windows can not be furnished usually

thruwalls into open areas as required above such, may also beprovided
via skylights, wherein case such skylightsshall have a gross ventilating
open vicinity of now no longer much less than 10%of the room vicinity as
particularly required. Openable element inthe window will be equal to
which can be changed orneeded to be furnished.

Section 26. Passive Cooling and Veltilation

 All evidently ventilated rooms will be so organized as to take full

advantage of or air actions because of warmth and pass ventilation thru
 “vanillas” beneath neath window sills, transoms – over home windows
ordoor-heads, constant louvers, perforated partitions or partitions.

Section 27. Artificial Veltilation

 Rooms or areas housing business or heating gadget shall be

provided with synthetic way of air flow to save you excessive
accumulation of warm and/or polluted air.

Whenever artificial ventilation is required, the equipment shall bedesigned

and constructed to meet the following minimumrequirements in the air
changes:

 For rooms absolutely above grade and used for office, clerical, for
administrative functions or as stores, income rooms, restaurants, markets,
factories, workshops, or machines rooms, now no longer much less than
three modifications on air in keeping with hour will be provided.
 For rooms totally above grade and used as bakeries, lodge orrestaurants
kitchens, laundries apart from accent to dwellingsand boiler rooms – now
no longer much less than ten adjustments of air according to hourshall be
provided.
 For wards, and dormitories of institutional buildings – now no longer less
than 0.forty-five cubic meters of air in step with minute will be provided for
each person accommodated.
 For different rooms or areas now no longer especially included below
trisection, relevant provisions of the brand-new version of the
PhilippineMechanical Engineering. Referral code shall govern.

Section 28. Health Consideration

  The specified smoking vicinity apart from in an open area shall
becompletely enclosed or bodily separated from the relaxation of
thepremises and prepared with ok air flow in conformity withthe provisions
of Presidential Decree No. 1096, in any other case regarded asthe
“National Building Code”, and the “Philippine Society ofMechanical
Engineers Code.” (Section 4.1 R.A. 9211)

Refer to R.A. 9211 “Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003” and R.A. 8749“Philippine
Clean Air Act of 1999”

Section 29. Foreign reciprocity

 No overseas indoors fashion dressmaker shall he issued a brief license to

exercise the indoors layout career or consultancy thereof or be entitled to
any of the rights and privileges beneathneath this Act except the usa of
which he's a topic or citizen mainly lets in Filipino indoors designers to
exercise inside its territorial limits at the equal foundation because the
topics or residents of such overseas country.

Section 30. Practice Through Temporary/Special Permit

(a) Foreigners proceeding to paintings withinside the Philippines to carry

out expert offerings as indoors designers or specialists whether or not
hired thru reputable overseas-funded or overseas-assisted initiatives
initiated with the aid of using the government, or engaged with the aid of
using non-public Filipino or overseas contractors and/or companies shall
first steady a temporary/unique allow from the Commission thru the Board
particularly authorizing him/ her to exercise at the unique task or fee
named therein: Provided, That:
1. He/She is legally and professionally qualified and registered to practice
interior design in his/her own country; and
2. His/Her expertise is unique and useful to the Philippines, resulting in
the transfer of information and technology, the establishment of
international standards in design, and the sharing of other specialized
skills.
(b) The foreign interior designer shall be required to work in every case
with a duly licensed Filipino counterpart who has been in continuous
practice of interior design for at least ten (10) years and whose
competence and integrity have been established by the Board on the
basis of uniform standards contained in their IRR.
(c) The foreign and Filipino interior designers working jointly on a special
project shall divide the professional fees and other charges from said
project equitably, according to their participation in or professional
services rendered to the project. Similarly, all documentation expenses,
taxes and other liabilities incurred on the shared project shall also be
borne equitably by both foreign and Filipino interior designers.

(d) Foreigners working jointly with Filipino interior designers shall sign
contracts, designs and other credits together with his/her Filipino
counterpart. Both foreign and Filipino interior designers shall at all times
be acknowledged in all marketing and promotional materials and
reportorial compliance for the project, whether prepared and/or submitted
locally or abroad. All residual earnings shall also be equitably shared
between foreign and local interior designers.

(e) Foreign design firms or individuals practicing in the Philippines before

the promulgation of this Act are required to comply with the requirements
 established by the Board in its IRR within the timetable it stipulates
therein.

(f) Any violation of these requirements or other illegal practices undertaken

by either foreign design firms or their Filipino counterparts shall be
punishable by law and/or the IRR issued by the Board.

Section 31. Indication of Numbers: Certificate of Registration, Professional Tax

Receipt and AIPO Membership.

 The indoors clothier will be required to suggest his/her certificates of

registration wide variety and date of issuance, the expiry of his/her
contemporary expert identity card, the expert tax receipt wide variety and
its date of issuance, and his/her AIPO club wide variety and date with
professional receipt wide variety and date of club payment
(annual/lifetime) on all of the files he/she signs, makes use of or troubles
in reference to the exercise of his/her indoors layout profession.

Section 32. Roster of Interior Designers

 The Board shall put together and hold a roster of the names, house and/or
workplace cope with of all registered indoors designers which will be up-
to-date yearly in cooperation with the AIPO, indicating therein the repute
of the certificates of registration, expert identity card and AIPO
membership, whether valid, delinquent, suspended or surrendered or
terminated because of loss of life or different reasons. The stated roster
will be conspicuously published in the premises of the Commission and
the statistics therefrom made to be hard to the public upon inquiry or
request.
Section 33. Integration of the Interior Designers

 The indoors designers will be included into one country wide agency of
indoors designers, this is duly registered with the SEC. The Board, in
concern to approval through the Commission, shall accredit the stated
agency as the only and simplest AIPO of indoors designers. All indoors
designers whose names seem with inside the Registry Book of Interior
Designers shall ipso facto or robotically grow to be individuals thereof and
shall acquire therefrom all the blessings and privileges because of
individuals upon charge of AIPO club charges and dues.

ARTICLE V

Section 34. Penal Clause

 The following acts shall be punished by a fine of not less than Three
hundred thousand pesos (Php300,000.00) but not more than One million
pesos (Php1,000,000.00) or imprisonment of not less than six (6) months
but not more than three (3) years, or both fine and imprisonment, at the
discretion of the court.
 (a) Local Practitioner
 Practicing interior design, rendering work and consultations or rendering
equivalent services as interior designer as defined in this Act or using the
title "Interior Designer", "Interior Design Consultant", "Interior Design
Stylist", or "Interior Design" or the official appendage title "IDr." in any
signage, calling card, advertisement or any other mode of publicity without
a valid certificate of registration and/or a valid professional identification
card or a valid temporary/special permit;
 Using or attempting to use the seal, certificate of registration and/or
professional identification card of a registered interior designer or
temporary/special permit issued to foreign professional;
 Abetting the illegal practice of interior design by an unregistered or
unauthorized person; and
 Impersonating a registered interior designer or a holder of a
temporary/special permit.

(b) Foreign Practitioner/Firm. – The responsible officers of a foreign

interior design firm and/or a foreigner who shall be found guilty of
illegally practicing the interior design profession shall be penalized with
a fine equivalent to thirty percent (30%) of their gross fees in addition
to payment of back taxes due to the Philippine government, if any, and
imprisonment of not less than six months but not more than three
years, or both fine and imprisonment, as well as permanent ban from
practice in the Philippines, at the discretion of the court.

(c) Violation of any provision of this Act or the IRR thereof.

Section 35. Civil Liability

 The indoors fashion dressmaker shall expect complete obligation for the
agreement paintings inside one (1) 12 months from the very last
 recognition through the purchaser and can be held liable for any harm or
destruction of the works besides the ones occasioned through pressure
mature. Tire indoors fashion dressmaker will be absolutely liable for the
safety, protection, safety and comfort of his clients/user, personnel, 1/3
parties, and the public at large, in addition to the works, system set up and
so on to be tormented by his paintings.

Section 36. Enforcement

 The commission shall enforce the worried provisions of this Act, put into
effect the IRR as followed with the aid of using the Board, behavior
investigations on lawsuits along with violations of the Code of Conduct of
the career and prosecute the equal while so warranted.

Section 37. Appropriations

 The Chairperson of the Commission shall at once encompass with

inside the Commission’s application the implementation of this Act, the
investment of which will be protected with inside the annual General
Appropriations Act.

Section 38. Transitory Provisions

 The incumbent Chairman and individuals of the Board shall, in an

intervening time capacity, preserve to feature as such till the Chairman
and individuals of the brand-new Board created below this Act shall were
appointed, constituted and/or prepared pursuant thereto.

Section 39. Implementing Rules and Regulations.

  The Board, with the approval of the Commission, shall undertake and
promulgate such IRR it can deem suitable inside ninety (90) days from its
constitution. The identical shall take impact after fifteen (15) days from its
guide with inside the Official Gazette or in two newspapers of well known
move with inside the country.

Section 40. Separability Clause

 If any clause, provision, paragraph or component hereof will be declared

unconstitutional or invalid, the equal shall now no longer affect, invalidate
or impair some other component hereof, and will be simply restrained to
the clause, provision, paragraph or component without delay concerned
with inside the controversy wherein such judgment has been rendered.

Section 41. Repealing Clause

 Republic Act No. 8534 is hereby repealed. All different laws, decrees,
government orders and administrative issuance or components thereof
that are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby modified,
outmoded and/or repealed accordingly.

Section 42. Effectivity

This Act shall take effect fifteen days following its publication in the Official
Gazette or m at least two newspapers of general circulation in the country.

CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS

Laws of Interior Design units the requirements of exercise to guard purchasers.

Legislation facilitates purchasers recognize they are operating with qualified,
accountable professionals. They recognize they are operating with designers
who use the modern day health, safety, and welfare information.

It will help to know and make a proper decision about the project because of the
laws.
REFERENCES

P.D. 1096 National Building Code of the Philippines and itsImplementing Rules
and Regulations

RA 8534 An Act Regulating the Practice of Interior Design in thePhilippines