Cap. 464 Art. 3Practice of a health careprofessionand use of professional title.

(1) No person shall practise a health care profession unless he fulfils the conditions for the taking up and pursuit of that health care profession in Malta, in accordance with the provisions of this

Act.

(2) (a) A person shall only be entitled to use a professional title if he fulfils the conditions set by the relevant Council for taking up and pursuit, in Malta, of the healthcare profession to which the title refers.

(b) The titles referred to in paragraph (a) are:

(i) medical practitioner

(ii) dental surgeon

(iii) midwife

(iv) nurse

(v) pharmacy technician

(vi) pharmacist.

(3) Healthcare professionals registered with any of the relevant Councils shall be legally entitled to use those academic titles conferred on them in the home Member State, and possibly an abbreviated form thereof, in the language of the home Member State as long as that title is followed by the name and address of the establishment or examining board which awarded it.

(4) In those cases where an academic title of the home Member State is liable to be confused with a title which in Malta requires supplementary training not acquired by the professional, then the relevant Council may require the professional to use the academic title of the home Member State in an appropriate form, as prescribed by the Council.