In some areas, there has been criticism of the self regulatory aspects of professions.\u00a0 More modern legislation has allowed for greater\u00a0representation of members of the public or persons interested in the particular service to be represented in disciplinary and other matters.<\/p>\n
There has been criticism of the dual representational and disciplinary \/ enforcement role of certain professional regulators or associations. In some cases, modern legislation has seprate the regulatory are representational roles<\/p>\n
There is a tension between the maintenance of standards and the control and admission of new members. \u00a0Generally, professional bodies do not have a role in restricting numbers.\u00a0 The Competition Authority has been highly critical of the restriction of numbers in some cases,\u00a0 as a\u00a0potentially serious breach of competition legislation.<\/p>\n\n
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Statutory Regulation A number of professions are regulated by bodies set up under legislation.\u00a0 In some other cases, particular private bodies effectively regulate the professions on the basis of the private rules of their particular association. In the case of legislative\u00a0regulation, there is generally a monopoly for members of the statutory body or association.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26803,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/26803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}