DRAFT LAW NO. 91 /X

CREATES THE ORDER OF PORTUGUESE PSYCHOLOGISTS

AND APPROVES YOUR STATUS

Portuguese psychologists are a professional class of enormous social relevance. In the

recent decades, we have assisted in assuming, on the part of psychologists, of a role each

more important in key areas of Portuguese society.

Thus, a profession that for many years had great difficulties in being

recognized, has become little and little in a professional class required and present

in the most varied sectors of activity. Psychologists play more and more

papers in numerous situations, and they do already today part of the National Health Service.

It is therefore the time to come to respond to an ambition of psychologists with more

of 20 years: the creation, the similarity of what has already happened in other countries, of a

Order of Portuguese Psychologists.

This Order will be the regulatory organization of the psychology professionals in Portugal.

It will come this way to suppress a flaw that nowadays checks in, as it

currently there is not an entity regulating the exercise of the profession of psychologist, nor

that it promotes the existence of deontological rules in the exercise of this profession.

The present Draft Law creates the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, and approves the

the respective Statute. This Order will be a representative public association of the

graduates in Psychology who exercise the profession of psychologist, and will have personality

legal, enjoying scientific, disciplinary, administrative, financial and

regulatory.

The Order will have as its mission to preserve and promote ethics, as well as the conditions

scientific, technical and social exercise of the profession of psychologist. For so much, in your

Statute is planned to be drawn up by the Order of a Deontological Code, as well as

various principles and general deontological duties, to be complied with by all psychologists.

The Order will have national, regional bodies and specialty colleges. The organs

national will be the General Assembly, the National Directorate, the Bastonary, the Council

Jurisdictional and the Fiscal Council. The regional will be the regional Assembly, the Directorate

Regional and the Regional Sections.

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So, in the applicable regimental and constitutional terms, the Deputies below

signed, from the CDS-People's Party, present the following draft law:

Article 1º

Subject

The Order of Psychologists is created and approved of its Statute, annexed to this Law, and which

of it is an integral part.

Article 2º

National installer commission

1. Until the realization of the first elections the Order will be interinely managed by a

National Installer Commission.

2. The National Facilities Commission shall be composed of the Directorate of the Association Pro-

Order of Portuguese Psychologists in exercise of duties at the date of approval of the

present statutes.

3. The National Installer Commission shall draw up an internal regulation in which to

will explain the minimum number of its elements, the form of cooptation of new

elements and standards of operation and decision-making.

4. The chairman of the National Installed Commission, which will have the designation of Bastonary

interim will be the President of the Directorate of the Association Pro-Order of Psychologists

Portuguese in office of duties at the date of approval of these Statutes.

5. The warrant of the National Installer Commission shall have a duration never exceeding

two years from the date of the approval of these Statutes.

Article 3º

Competence of the National Facilities Commission

It is incumbent on the National Installer Commission:

a) Accept inscriptions in the Order pursuant to Articles 4, 57, 63 and 91;

(b) to elaborate and maintain updated the general framework of psychologists;

(c) Directing the activity of the Order at the National level in accordance with the present

status;

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d) Give opinions and information to public and private entities, for compliance with

attributions provided for in Article 4º;

e) Proceed to the convening of the first elections pursuant to this statute, until

thirty days before the expiry of his term of office.

Article 4º

Inscription on the Order

1. Psychology professionals with higher academic training and curriculum that

integrand recognized training and practice in the area of psychology could, within the time of

twelve months from the approval of the present Statutes, apply for the registration in the

Order, for effect of the provisions of Article 4º.

2. Acceptance of enrollment requires a two-thirds majority of the members of the Commission

National Installer.

Article 5º

Entry into force

This Law shall come into force on the immediate day when it is published.

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ANNEX

Status of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists

Chapter I

Nature, mission and assignments

Article 1º

Nature

1. The Order of Psychologists, hereafter abbreviated by Order, is the

public association representative of the graduates in Psychology who, in

compliance with the precepts of this statute and the applicable legal provisions,

carries out the profession of psychologist.

2. The Order of Psychologists has legal personality and enjoys scientific autonomy,

discipline, administrative, financial and regulatory.

Article 2º

Scope, Sede and Delegations and Regional Sections

1. The Order carries out its activities throughout the national territory.

2. The Order is based in Lisbon, and may establish Delegations and Sections

Regional when it becomes necessary and convenient for the pursuit of its

attributions.

Article 3º

Mission

It is mission of the Order to preserve and promote ethics as well as the scientific conditions,

techniques and social of exercise of the profession of psychologist.

Article 4º

Attributions

In the pursuit of its tasks, it is incumbent upon the Order:

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a) Ensuring compliance with the rules of professional ethics;

b) Set the level of professional qualification of psychologists, assign the title

professional;

(c) to regulate the exercise of the profession and to define the scope of the psychological act;

(d) carry out the registration of all psychologists;

e) Defend the rights and prerogatives of psychologists, promoting procedure

judicial against whom to use the title and to exercise the profession illegally;

(f) to exercise exclusive disciplinary jurisdiction over psychologists;

g) Elaborate studies and pronount on any draft diplomas

legislative interests that are of interest to the exercise of the profession of psychologist;

h) Create and regulate the professional specialties of psychology and pass the

corresponding titles;

i) Ensuring the respect of the legitimate interests of the users in the services provided

by the psychologists, taking into account the rules of the deontological code;

(j) collaborate with schools, universities and other institutions in graduate education

and postgraduates of the Psychologists;

k) Organize, by you or in collaboration with other institutions, courses of

specialization, improvement and recycling;

l) Organize and promote the holding of congresses, conferences, colloquials,

similar seminars and activities;

m) Pressure scientific and technical collaboration requested by any entities,

public or private;

n) Developing relationships with related, national or foreign associations, and may

be part of national and international unions and federations;

o) Zelar for the dignity and prestige of the profession and to promote solidarity

among its members;

(p) to exercise the remaining functions resulting from the law and the provisions of this Statute.

Article 5º

Principles of acting

The Order acts by the respect of the principles of legality, equality,

proportionality, justice, impartiality and the Universal Declaration of Rights

of the Man.

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Article 6º

Insiggnia

The Order is entitled to use emblem and own stamp, of models to be approved by the

General assembly, on a proposal from the Directorate.

Chapter II

Organization of the Order

Section I

General provisions

Article 7º

Territoriality and competence

1. The Order has national, regional and colleges of specialty.

2. The competences of the organs define themselves on the grounds of the national, regional or

in reason of the specialty of the subjects.

Article 8º

National bodies

They are national bodies of the Order:

a) The Assembly-german;

b) The National Directorate;

c) The Bastonary;

(d) The Judicial Council;

e) The Fiscal Council.

Article 9º

Regional bodies

They are organs of the Regional Delegations:

a) The Regional Assembly;

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b) The Regional Directorate;

c) The Regional Sections.

Article 10º

Colleges of specialty

In each specialty college there is a specialty board.

Article 11º

Democratic principle

The composition of the organs rests on the direct participation of the members of the Order or,

when this is not possible, in the election.

Article 12º

Exercise of positions

1. Without prejudice to the payment by the Order of any expenses arising from

displacements or specific tasks, as well as the provisions of the following number, the

exercise of the posts of the organs of the Order is always free of charge.

2. The members of the organs of the Order who, on the grounds of performance of their

functions, lose all or part of the remuneration of your work, are entitled to the

reimbursement, on the part of the Order, of the corresponding importances, under conditions to

regulatory by the General Assembly.

Section II

Elections

Article 13.

Electoral table

In the elections for the national bodies the general assembly desk takes over the duties of

electoral table and in the elections of regional bodies the electoral table is the table of the

regional assembly.

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Article 14º

Applications

1. The lists for national and regional bodies are presented before the President

of the Bureau of the General Assembly;

2. Each list is subscribed by a minimum of one hundred members, herd, to the organs

national and thirty to regional bodies, and shall include the names of all the

candidates for each of the organs, with the declaration of acceptance.

3. Applications are submitted until September 15 of the year immediately preceding

to the subsequent triennium.

Article 15.

Electoral notebooks

1-Election notebooks are to be affixed to the national and regional offices 45 days

prior to the date of the holding of the electoral assembly.

2-From irregular enrollment or omission in the electoral rolls will be able to any elector

complain to the electoral table in the 15 days following those of the affixing, owing this

decide on the complaint within forty eight hours.

Article 16.

Election Commission

1-A Electoral Commission is composed of the Chair of the Assembly desk-general and by

three representatives from each of the competing lists, owing to start functions twenty and

four hours after the submission of the applications.

2-Representatives of each of the competing lists must be nominated

jointly with the submission of the respective applications.

3-Compete to the Election Commission:

a) Fiscalize the electoral process and resolve all the issues arising in its

scope;

(b) draw up reports of irregularities detected and present them to the electoral table;

c) Distribute among the different lists of candidates the use of the means of support

made available by the direction of the Order.

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Article 17.

Supply of irregularities

1-A The electoral table should check the regularity of applications in the five days

subsequent to the closing of the deadline for the delivery of the application lists.

2-With a view to the supply of the possible irregularities found, the documentation

is returned to the first subscriptor of the list, which must sanction it within three days

useful.

3-Faying the time limit referred to in the preceding paragraph without proceeding to regularization of the

applications, must the electoral table reject them in the following twenty-four hours.

Article 18.

Bulletins of vote

1-Vote bulletins are edited by the Order, upon control of the electoral table.

2-The ballot papers, as well as the application lists, are sent to all the

members of the assembly election up to 10 working days prior to the date scheduled for the act

electoral and are available at the polling place.

Article 19.

Identity of voters

The identification of the voters is done through the professional ballot and, failing that, by

means of identity card or any other identifying element with

photograph, accepted by the voting table.

Article 20º

Voting

1-Elections are made by universal, direct and secret suffrage, exercised

presentially or, in the terms of regulation, by correspondence.

2-Only have the right to vote the members in the full enjoyment of their rights.

3-In the case of a mail-order vote the bulletin is closed in overwriting

accompanied by letter signed by the voter and photocopy of the professional ballot.

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4-Is vetted the vote by proxy.

Article 21º

Date of elections

1-Elections for national and regional bodies are held during the last

quarter of the year immediately prior to the subsequent triennium.

2-A The date is the same for all the organs.

Article 22º

Mandates

1-The holders of the elective bodies are elected for a period of three years.

2-It is not admitted to re-election of holders of national or regional bodies to a

third consecutive term, for the same functions.

3-The mandate and the manner of election of the holders of the Specialty Councils

are contained in own regulations.

Article 23º

Polling stations

For election effect, they constitute at least as many polling stations as many as

Regional Delegations, in addition to the voting table at the national headquarters.

Article 24.

Complaints and resources

1-Voters may lodge complaint, on the grounds of irregularities of the

electoral act, which is to be presented to the electoral table until three days after the

closure of the electoral act.

2-A The electoral table should appreciate the complaint within forty eight hours, being

the decision communicated to the appellant in writing and affixed to the seat of the Order.

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3-From the decision of the electoral bureau it is up to the Jurisdictional Council, within the period of

eight working days counted from the date on which the applicants were aware of the decision

of the electoral table.

4-The Jurisdictional Council is summoned by the respective President, to the effect, in the

eight following days.

Article 25.

Financing of elections

The Order shall attend the charges of the elections with amount to be set by the direction.

Article 26º

Take of Posse

The Outlet of Posse of all elected bodies comes up to one month after the elections.

Article 27º

Resignation

1. All members shall enjoy the right of waiver to the mandate for which they have been

elected;

2. Any member of the organs of the Order may request the temporary suspension of the

exercise of the corresponding functions, on duly substantiated grounds,

may not the term of suspension exceed the six months.

3. The resignations or suspensions of the mandate should be communicated to the Presidents

of the respective bodies, as well as the President of the Bureau of the General Assembly.

4. Except at the previous point the resignation of the Bastonary which is to be presented

only to the President of the Bureau of the General Assembly.

5. The resignation of more than half of the elected members for a particular body,

after all substitutions have been carried out by the respective alternates

elected, mandates the holding of elections for the respective body.

Section III

National bodies

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Article 28º

General assemblage

They make up the General Assembly all the actual members of the Order.

Article 29º

Competencies of the General Assembly

It is incumbent on the General Assembly:

a) Eleger and impeach, pursuant to this statute, to its Bureau, the Directorate

National, the Jurisdictional Council and the Fiscal Council;

(b) to discuss and vote on the annual budget of the Order, where the apportionment of the

revenue and expenditure at national and regional level;

c) Deliberate on all matters relating to the activity of the Order or that if

situem in the field of their statutory assignments;

d) Approve the creation of professional specialties of psychology, upon

proposal of the National Directorate, as well as ratify the installed commissions of the

respective colleges, the conditions of access and their electoral regulations;

e) Attribution, on proposal of the National Directorate, the quality of member

corresponding, benemeritus or honorary of the Order;

f) Deliberate on the creation or extinction of the Regional Delegations;

g) Fixing the value of the quota to be paid by the members, on a proposal from the Directorate

National;

(h) to appreciate and vote on the report and the accounts of the National Directorate;

(i) to discuss and approve motions for amendments to the Statutes.

j) Deliberate on any subject that is not understood in the competences

specific to the remaining organs.

Article 30º

Health

1. The General Assembly shall convenor ordinarily:

a) For the election of the Bureau of the General Assembly, of the National Directorate, of the Council

Jurisdictional and the Fiscal Council;

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b) For the discussion and voting of the report and accounts of the National Directorate.

2. The General Assembly brings together extraordinarily, whenever the circumstances the

advise and your President to convot for your initiative or at the request of the

Direction, from any of the Regional Directions or a minimum of 100 members

actual.

3. If at the time scheduled for the start of the general assembly not to be present by the

less than half of the actual members, the assembly will start its duties

time later, with the presence of any number of members.

4. The General Assembly intended for discussion and voting of the report and accounts of the

National Directorate, takes place until the end of the month of March of the immediate year to the

respective exercise.

Article 31º

Convocation

1. The General Assembly is summoned by its President upon expedited postal notice

for each of the members, at least 15 days in advance in relation to the

designated date for the realization of the assembly.

2. Of the convocation shall appear on the order of work and the place of achievement of the

assembly.

Article 32º

Table

The Bureau of the General Assembly shall be composed of a President, two Secretaries and two

vowels.

Article 33º

National Directorate

The National Directorate is composed of a President who is the Bastonary, two Vice-

presidents, a Treasurer and an odd number of vowels, at the minimum of five.

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Article 34º

Competence

It competes with the National Directorate:

a) Accept inscriptions or send cancelling them, at the request of the own or by decision of the

Jurisdictional Council;

(b) elaborate and keep up to date the registration of all Psychologists;

c) Propose the creation of the framework of professional psychology specialties, propose the

commissions installers of the specialty colleges and submit to the approval of the

General assembly the conditions of access, internal regulation and election of each

college of specialty;

d) Give implementation to the deliberations of the General Assembly;

(e) to elaborate and approve regulations;

(f) heading the national activity of the Order;

g) Promote the installation and coordinate the activities of the Regional Directions and Sections;

h) Give, directly or through commissions constituted for the purpose, opinions and

information to public and private entities, within the scope of the tasks of the Order;

i) Charge the revenue and carry out the expenditure provided for in the budget;

(j) to draw up and present to the General Assembly the report of activities, the accounts and the

annual budget.

Article 35º

Health

1. The National Directorate meets ordinarily once a month and extraordinarily

whenever summoned by your president.

2. The National Directorate can only deliberate validly when more are present

of half of its members.

3. The deliberations are taken by a simple majority of the members present, avails of the

president of quality voting.

Article 36º

Bastonary

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The Bastonary is the President of the National Directorate.

Article 37º

Competencies

Compete for the Bastonary:

a) represent the Order in judgment and outside of it, specifically in the face of the organs of

sovereignty and community and international organizations;

b) Presiding with a vote of quality, to the National Directorate;

c) Perform and enforce the deliberations of the National Directorate and the remaining bodies

national;

(d) to exercise the competence of the National Directorate in cases of recognised urgency or

in the situations in which such competence is delegated to it;

e) to ensure the normal functioning of the Services of the Order, in the respect of the Act, of the

Statute and the respective regulations.

f) Designate the Vice President who will replace you in your phalings and impediments

Article 38.

Linking

1. In order for the Order to be obliged are required the signatures of the Bastonary and of

another member in effectivity of functions.

2. The National Directorate may constitute mandatary for the practice of certain and

certain acts, and shall for this accurately set the scope and temporality of the

powers conferred.

Article 39.

Liability Solidaria

1. The members of the organs respond in solidarity with the acts practiced in the

exercise of the mandate given to them.

2. Be exempt from this liability the members who have not been present

in the session in which the deliberation was taken, nor in that in which, after reading,

it is approved the minutes of the session concerned or, being present they have voted

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expressly against the deliberation in question.

Article 40º

Jurisdictional Council

The Jurisdictional Council is composed of five members and advised by a

legal advisor, being one of its President members and the remaining vowels.

Article 41º

Competence

It is incumbent on the Judicial Council

a) Velar for compliance with the Act, the Statutes and the internal regulations, whether

on the part of the organs of the Order, either by all its members;

b) Give advice on the proposals for regulations;

c) To instruct and judge all disciplinary proceedings instituted to the members;

(d) elaborate minutes of their meetings.

Article 42º

Health

1. The Jurisdictional Council gathers at the headquarters of the Order when summoned by its

president.

2. The deliberations are taken by a majority, avails of the voting chair of

quality.

Article 43º

Fiscal Council

The Fiscal Council consists of a president and two vowels.

Article 44º

Competence

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It is incumbent on the Tax Council:

a) Examine and issue opinion on the annual accounts to be submitted by the Directorate

National to the Assemblies-german;

b) Present to the National Directorate the suggestions that you understand of interest;

c) to Fiscalize the flattened minutes at the meetings of the National Directorate;

(d) elaborate minutes of their meetings.

Section IV

Regional Bodies

Article 45º

Regional Assemblies

1. The creation of Regional Assemblies depends on the needs created by the

pursuit of the activities of the Order of Psychologists, whose geographical area of

acting will build on internal regulation.

2. Each Regional Assembly shall be composed of all members enrolled in the Order

whose professional domicile is situated in the geographical area included in the Delegation

Regional.

Article 46º

Table of the Regional Assembly

The Bureau of the Regional Assembly is made up of a President and two Secretaries.

Article 47º

Competence

It competes with the Regional Assembly:

a) Eleger to your table;

(b) Appreciate the plan of activities, the report and the budget presented by the

Regional direction;

c) Deliberate on matters of a regional scope;

d) Deliberate on any subject that is not understood in the competences

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specific to the remaining regional bodies;

And) to draw up minutes of the Regional Assemblies.

Article 48º

Health

1. The Regional Assembly shall convene ordinarily for the election of the respective table and

for discussion of the report of activities of the Regional Directorate.

2. The Regional Assembly brings together extraordinarily on the initiative of the President or the

request of the Regional Directorate or of a tenth of the members enrolled in the respective

Delegation.

3. The Regional Assembly aimed at the discussion and voting of the activity report

of the Regional Directorate takes place until the end of the month of March of the immediate year to the

respective exercise.

Article 49º

Regional Directorate

The Regional Directorate is composed of a President and a pair of vowels in the

minimum of two.

Article 50º

Competence

It competes with the Regional Directorate:

a) represent the Order in the respective geographical area, specifically in the face of

public entities that there exercise assignments, whenever mandated to the

effect, by the National Directorate;

b) Give implementation to the deliberations of the General Assembly and the Regional Assembly and to the

guidelines of the National Directorate;

(c) to exercise delegated powers by the National Directorate;

(d) directing the regional activity of the Order;

e) Give opinions and information;

f) Perform the budget for the Regional Directorate;

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(g) Generation of regional services;

(h) elaborate and submit to the National Directorate the report and the annual accounts;

(i) elaborate minutes of their meetings.

Article 51º

Regional Sections

1. The National Directorate may create Regional Sections in geographical areas of

sharp specificity, in which if it is not justifying the creation of Delegations

Regional.

2. The National Directorate establishes the functions of each section and appoints a

responsible for constituting and chairing your section.

3. Anually the Directorate of the Regional Section presents to the National Directorate the

business plans and the reports of activities and accounts for approval.

Section V

Colleges of Specialty

Article 52º

Specialties

1. Powers will be created colleges of specialty whenever determined matter is

regarded as having particular technical and scientific characteristics, whose

importance implies a specialization of knowledge or professional practice.

2. Each college shall be made up of all members to which it is recognised

specialty.

Article 53º

Installed commission

1. Whenever a College of Specialty is formed the National Directorate appoints a

installer commission composed of a president, a secretary and three vowels, with

deadline to draw up a proposal of the conditions of access and an internal regulation

and electoral to submit to the approval of the General Assembly.

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2. Approved conditions of access and internal and electoral regulation, the committee

installer proceeds to the enrolment of the psychologists who meet the conditions

stipulated for assignment of the expert title and then initiates the process

electoral.

Article 54º

Board of Specialty

1. Each College of Specialty is directed by a Board of Specialty,

made up of a president, a secretary and three vowels elected for three years by the

members of the respective specialty, in accordance with approved own regulation

by the National Directorate.

2. The president has at least five years of exercise of the specialty.

Article 55º

Competence

It is incumbent on the Board of Speciality:

a) Propose to the National Directorate the criteria for awarding the title of psychologist

specialist;

b) To assign the title of specialist psychologist in the field of the respective financial year

professional of psychology;

(c) to draw up and maintain updated the general framework of expert psychologists;

d) Promoting the narrowing of scientific and professional relations in the framework

national and international in each specialty;

e) Zelar by the scientific, technical and professional valorisation of its members;

(f) to draw up minutes of their meetings.

Chapter III

Members

Section I

Inscription

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Article 56º

Compulsion

1. The assignment of the professional title, its use, and the exercise of the profession of psychologist,

in any sector of activity, depend on enrolment in the Order, as a member

effective.

2. Foreign nationals residing in Portugal who have the educational qualifications and

professionals equivalent to those of Portuguese citizens for the exercise of the profession of

psychologist, pursuant to the applicable legal and international provisions, are subject to

inscription on the Order.

Article 57º

Inscription

1. There Are Regional Delegations, the inscription is done in the professional domicile of the

psychologist.

2. Enrollment in the Order can only be refused on grounds of the lack of qualifications

legal for the exercise of the profession, safeguarding the expulsion provided for in point (d) of the

number 1 of Article 79º, 79º.

3. Enrollment in the Order can be made in any of the recognized specialties

by the Order.

Article 58º

Professional ballot

1. With the admission of the inscription is issued professional ballot signed by the Bastonary.

2. The Professional Cédule will have the model to be approved in General Assembly.

Article 59º

Suspension and Cancellation

1. Are suspended from the Order the members who:

a) shall be subject to the disciplinary measure of suspension;

b) On your initiative, together with your Regional Delegation, require suspension;

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c) The members who find themselves in a situation of incompatibility with the

exercise of the profession of Psychologist.

2. It is cancelled the inscription on the Order to the members that:

a) shall be subject to the disciplinary measure of expulsion;

b) Leave to exercise, voluntarily, the professional activity, and that so

demonstrate before their Regional Delegation.

3. The sanction of suspension of enrollment for more than six months and that of cancellation of the

enrollment may be enacted by court decision, preceding procedure

judicial.

Article 60º

Not payment of quotas

The non-payment of quotas, for a period of more than one year, in the terms to be defined by

regulation, implies the suspension of the rights provided for in Article 67º, save the constant

of paragraph (c).

Section II

Categories

Article 61º

Categories of members

The Order has effective, corresponding, honorary and benemeric members.

Article 62º

Effective members

They are admitted as effective members all graduates in psychology who

to exercise the profession in the terms provided for in this statute.

Article 63º

Matching members

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They are admitted as the corresponding members:

a) Portuguese citizens licensed in psychology who exert their activity in the

foreign;

b) Members of foreign associations congeners who confirm equal treatment

to members of the Order.

Article 64º

Honorary members

1. Are admitted as honorary members to natural or legal persons who,

exercising or having exercised activity of recognized public interest and

contributed to the dignified and the prestige of the profession of psychologist, be

considered to be worthy of such distinction.

2. The quality of honorary member is conferred by the proposal submitted by the

National direction and approved by the General Assembly.

Article 65º

Benemeric members

1. Are admitted as benemeric members to natural or legal persons who,

having rendered pecuniary or patrimonial contribution in favor of the Order, be

considered to be worthy of such distinction.

2. The quality of honorary member is conferred by the proposal submitted by the

National direction and approved by the General Assembly.

Section III

Rights and duties of members

Article 66º

Rights of the actual members

They constitute rights of the actual members:

a) The exercise of the profession of psychologist;

b) To be supported by the Order for the defence of your professional rights and interests;

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c) To be informed about all studies, provisions and opinions relating to the

exercise of the profession;

d) Rewant the allocation of skill levels as well as of securities of

specialization;

e) Sugest and discuss the creation of specialties;

(f) to benefit from the editorial activity and to use the services offered by the Order:

g) Eleger and be elected to the organs of the Order;

h) Participate in the activities and carry out any functions within the framework of the Order, in the

terms of the Statute;

i) Participate and benefit from the social, cultural, recreational and scientific activity of the

Order.

Article 67º

Duties of the actual members

They constitute duties of the actual members:

(a) scrupulously adhere to the principles set out in the Deontological Code;

b) Pressure to commissions and working groups the collaboration that is requested to them;

c) To contribute to the good reputation of the Order and seek to broaden its scope of

influence;

(d) perform the duties for which they are designated;

(e) to comply with and enforce the deliberations of the organs of the Order;

f) Paying the quotas and the remaining regulatory burdens;

g) Update yourself professionally;

h) Aging solidarily in the defence of the collective interests of the members of the Order.

Article 68º

Rights and duties of the corresponding members

1. Constituts rights of the corresponding members the consignments under points (c) and (f)

of Article 67º.

2. Constituts duties of the corresponding members those set out in points (a) and

c) of Article 68º.

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Article 69º

Rights of honorary members

It constitutes the right of the honorary members to be listed in point (c) of Article 67º.

Chapter IV

Financial Regime

Article 70º

Recipes

They constitute revenue of the Order;

a) the quotas paid by its members;

b) Product of the sale of its publications;

c) Donations, inheritances, legacies and subsidies;

d) the income of goods that are affected by it;

e) Revenue from activities and projects;

f) Other revenue from own goods or by provision of services.

Article 71º

Expenses

They constitute expenses of the Order as for installation and expenditure on personnel, maintenance,

functioning and all necessary for the pursuit of its objectives.

Article 72.

Exemption from expense, prepares and tax of justice

The Order is exempt from the expense, prepares and tax of justice in any proceeding at

that intervenes.

Chapter V

Disciplinary regime

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Article 73º

Principle of responsibility

1. Members of the Order respond disciplinarily, under the terms of this statute

and of the disciplinary regulations.

2. disciplinary liability shall be independent of civil and criminal liability.

Article 74º

Disciplinary jurisdiction

The exercise of disciplinary action shall compete with the Disciplinary Councils, to the Council

Jurisdictional and the National Directorate.

Article 75º

Disciplinary offence

1. Consider disciplinary infringement all action or omission that consists in violation

dolosa or culposa, by any member of the Order, of the duties consigned to the

status, in the deontological code or in the regulations.

2. Any natural or legal person may give notice to the Order of acts

likely to constitute disciplinary infringement practiced by enrolled psychologist.

Article 76º

Prescription of disciplinary responsibility

1. The disciplinary offences prescribe within five years of the practice of the

act or of the last act in case of continued practice.

2. If the offences constitute simultaneously criminal offences, they prescribe the

same time as the criminal procedure, if this is superior.

3. disciplinary responsibility also prescribes if, from participation to any

organ of the Order of the offence committed, not to initiate the disciplinary procedure

competent in a period of five months.

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Article 77º

Cessation of disciplinary responsibility

The disciplinary responsibility remains during the period of suspension of the Order, and

does not basket with the application for cancellation of the inscription, nor with expulsion, by

previously practised offences.

Article 78º

Disciplinary feathers

1. The disciplinary penalties are as follows:

(a) Warning;

(b) registered censorship;

c) Suspension up to a maximum of six months;

(d) expulsion.

2. The penalty provided for in subparagraph (a) shall be applied to the Member who disrespects any instruction

or order that is given to him by any of the organs.

3. The penalty provided for in point (b) shall be applied to the member who commits disciplinary offence

in the event of gross negligence or that reinced in the offence referred to in the number

previous.

4. The penalty provided for in point (c) shall be applied to the member who commits disciplinary offence

which severely affects the dignity and prestige of the profession.

5. The penalty provided for in point (d) shall be applied to the member who commits disciplinary offence

which also constitutes a crime punishable with imprisonment of more than two years or

when reinced in the offence referred to in the preceding paragraph.

6. The application of any of the penalties referred to in the number one the member who exercises

any office in the organs of the Order implies the ousting of that post.

Article 79º

Graduation

In the application of the penalties shall be due to the professional and disciplinary background of the

argued, to the degree of culpability, to the seriousness and consequences of the offence and to all the

too much aggravating or mitigating circumstances.

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Article 80º

Resources

1. In the decisions taken jointly by the National Directorate and the Council

Jurisdictional not fit within the scope of the Order, without prejudice to the provisions of the

following numbers.

2. Acts practiced by the organs of the Order admit the hierarchical resources

provided for in this statute, being the eight-day period of interposition

when another special is not pointed out.

3. Of the definitive and enforceable acts of the organs of the Order shall be appeasable to litigation

for the administrative courts of the general terms of law

Chapter VI

Professional Deontology

Article 81º

General principles

In the exercise of their professional activity, they must be respected by the Psychologist the

following general principles:

a) Actuate with independence and professional exemption;

(b) Prestigious and dignifying the profession;

c) Put your capacity in the service of the public interest;

d) Empaining themselves in the establishment of a social cooperation dynamic with the

objective to improve individual and collective well-being;

f) Defend and make advocation for professional secrecy;

(g) require its members and collaborators to respect the confidentiality;

h) Use the scientific instruments appropriate to the rigor required in the practice of your

profession;

j) Knowing and acting with respect for legal and regulatory precepts;

(l) comply with the mismatch standards that are due to the law.

Article 82.

General duties

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The Psychologist must, in his or her professional activity:

a) Abster to sanction documents or to make statements that unduly

result in own or outrain favourition;

b) Avoid the misrepresentation of the interpretation of the content, explicit or implicit, of

documents of technical support for the exercise of the profession, with the aim of deluding good faith

of an outrain;

c) Defend the principles of the ethics of the profession, refusing to collaborate or participate in

any service or endeavor that judges to hurt these principles;

d) Recuse any interferences in the exercise of their activity that they put in

cause technical-scientific or ethical aspects of the professional exercise, whatever they are

its hierarchical functions and dependencies or the place where it carries out its activity.

Article 83.

Deontological Code

The Order shall draw up, maintain and update the Deontological Code of Psychologists.

Article 84º

Incompatibilities

1. Psychologists will not be able to exercise more than one post, simultaneously, in the organs

figurines of the Order.

2. Any professional activities carried out simultaneously with the activity

of Psychologist who propitiate ambiguity concerning the exercise of the profession or that

hinders the delimitation of that exercise.

3. The rest referred to in the Deontological Code;

Article 85.

Professional Secret

The psychologist is found to be subject to professional secrecy in everything that concerns the

facts that are revealed by the client in the context of any professional matters.

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Article 86.

Duties to the Order

The psychologist, in the exercise of his profession shall:

(a) respect the present statute and regulations of the Order;

(b) comply with the deliberations of the Order;

(c) to collaborate in the tasks of the Order and to exercise the posts for which it has been

elected;

d) Paying punctually the quotas due to the Order that are established in the

terms of this statute;

e) Communicate, within thirty days, any change of professional domicile.

Article 87.

Reciprocal duties among psychologists

The psychologist, in the exercise of his profession shall:

(a) respect the work of colleagues;

b) Maintain any type of collaboration when it is necessary.

The Deputies of the CDS-Popular Party