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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 24 February 2003 - onwards

Regulation 11 Regulated professions.

(1) This Regulation applies to the right under Regulation 4 to make a commercial communication which is part of, or constitutes, a relevant service provided by a member of a regulated profession.

(2) Without prejudice to any other provision of these Regulations permitting a restriction or limitation, the designated authority for a regulated profession may, in exercise of any powers vested in it with regard to the regulation of the activities of its members, make the exercise of the right to which this Regulation applies by a member of the profession subject to compliance with specified conditions of the kind mentioned in paragraph (3).

(3) The conditions that may be so specified are ones that may reasonably be regarded as appropriate for the purpose of maintaining the standing and integrity of the profession concerned and ensuring adherence by its members to the requisite standards and in particular for the purpose of ensuring -

(a) the independence, dignity and honour of the profession,

(b) compliance with obligations of professional secrecy and fairness towards clients and other members of the profession.