Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Act 2012

Amendment of Principal Act — insertion of section 91A (use of professional titles).

16.— The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following after section 91 but in Part 9:

“Use of professional titles.

91A.— Section 79(4) shall not apply to the use of a title referred to in section 79(1), (2) or (3) for a designated profession—

(a) during the period that begins when section 79(4) is commenced and ends at the end of the transitional period in relation to the profession concerned, and

(b) where an application is made under section 91, during any period after the end of the transitional period concerned during which—

(i) the application is being determined, or

(ii) by virtue of section 91(6), an application or appeal relating to the application is being determined.”.