Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005

PART 7

Professional Titles and Offences

Use of professional titles.

79.—(1) A registrant of a profession designated in section 4 (1) is entitled to use the title specified in the applicable paragraph of that section for that profession.

(2) In addition, a registrant of a profession designated in section 4 (1) is entitled to use any title for the time being prescribed under section 95 (3) for that profession.

(3) A registrant of a profession designated by regulation under section 4 (2) is entitled to use any title for the time being prescribed under section 4 (6) for that profession.

(4) A person shall not use a title referred to in any of subsections (1) to (3) unless entitled by virtue of this section to use that title.

(5) A chartered physiotherapist does not contravene subsection (4) by using the title that he or she is entitled to use by virtue of being a member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists.