Professional engineer · South Africa
Website advertising rules for professional engineers in South Africa
Professional engineers answer to their regulator's advertising and conduct rules as well as to privacy law. This is what ECSA Code of Conduct for Registered Persons (Board Notice 41 of 2017) means for your website: testimonials, claims, fees, titles and the details you must show. It applies only to sites of that profession, and only where you are licensed. For the general laws every site in South Africa must follow, see South Africa's laws.
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ECSA Code of Conduct for Registered Persons (Board Notice 41 of 2017)
Published in Government Gazette 40691 on 17 Mar 2017 under the Engineering Profession Act 46 of 2000.
Who it covers: Persons registered with ECSA (professional engineers, technologists, technicians and candidates). Failure to comply is improper conduct under the Act. Set by the Engineering Council of South Africa.
What it requires of a website or app (4)
- Do not advertise professional services in a misleading or exaggerated mannerAI reviewCode Sch. item 3.5(d)
- Do not advertise in a manner harmful to the dignity of the professionAI reviewCode Sch. item 3.5(d)
- Do not maliciously or falsely injure another registered person's reputation or businessAI reviewCode Sch. item 3.5(b)
- Do not misrepresent, or knowingly permit misrepresentation of, your own qualifications or registrationAI reviewCode Sch. (misrepresentation clause)
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