New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PSYCHOLOGISTS ACT 2001 - SECT 7

7 Registration necessary for certain representations

(1) A person who is not a registered psychologist must not indicate that the person practises psychology or is qualified to practise psychology.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting the ways in which a person may be taken to have indicated that the person is qualified to practise psychology or that the person practises psychology, a person is taken to have so indicated if the person uses:

(a) any name, initials, word, title, symbol or description that (having regard to the circumstances in which it is used) indicates, or is capable of being understood to indicate, or is calculated to lead a person to infer, that the person is qualified to practise psychology or that the person practises psychology, or

(b) any name, title or description prescribed by the regulations.