(1) The Council shall in each year, within six months after the end of its financial year, submit to the Minister a report in regard to its activities during that financial year, together with a copy of the audited statement of income and expenditure and the balance sheet referred to in subsection (4) of section seventeen in respect of that financial year and a list of registered architects whose names appeared on the Register on the last day of that financial year.
(2) The chairman of the Council shall from time to time submit to the Minister reports in regard to matters relating to the activities of the Council which, in the opinion of the Council, should be brought to the notice of the Minister.
(3) The Council shall, when so requested by the Minister, furnish to the Minister advice on matters in connection with the profession of architecture or cognate matters and shall communicate to the Minister information acquired by it in the course of its duties on matters regarded by it as being of public import.