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Institutes January 4, 2017

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Anyone happen to know if there’s any law on the use of the word Institute in the title of an organisation?

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1. Tomboktu - January 4, 2017

The only restriction in Ireland that I know of is about the use of the word ‘university’.

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WorldbyStorm - January 4, 2017

Thanks a million, very useful to know

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2. Steve Hedley - January 4, 2017

“Institute of Technology” can’t be used without official permission if you are a “provider of a programme of education and training” – see Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012 section 81 – but I don’t know of anything that catches “Institute” on its own.

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3. EWI - January 4, 2017

The official position of the Dublin Insitute for Culture and Knowledge (as declared from a barstool on the Northside) is that no, you don’t 😎

http://freestater.blogspot.ie/2005/07/shakenbake-think-tank.html

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4. WorldbyStorm - January 4, 2017

Much appreciated all.

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5. Steve Hedley - January 4, 2017

Go to the Companies Registration Office site (http://search.cro.ie/company/) and search under “Company Name”: “Starts with this Phrase”: “Institute” – this turns up quite a list. So it doesn’t look like the CRO know any law against it.

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6. RosencrantzisDead - January 4, 2017

No. But if the word ‘institute’ would falsely give a consumer the impression that the offending organization had an accreditation or qualifications that it did not have, thiswould very likely fall foul of the law.

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RosencrantzisDead - January 4, 2017

I should add this is where the ‘institute’ is providing ‘services’ to the public.

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Tomboktu - January 4, 2017

What law, though? It’s just a name

The awarding of qualifications is regulated, but grounded in the qualifications, not the name of the organisation (other than those referred to above).

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Steve Hedley - January 4, 2017

If claiming to be an “Institute” is thought to impress the average consumer unduly, then I suppose it could be part of an argument that there was a misleading commercial practice. Consumer Protection Act 2007 s 43(1): “A commercial practice is misleading if it includes the provision of false information in relation to any matter set out in subsection (3)”; s 43(3)(f): that information includes “the nature, attributes or rights of the trader [including] the trader’s identity, qualifications, assets or status …” But there would have to be more than this to ground a serious claim – the claim to be an “institute” isn’t so much ‘false’ as madey-uppy. As RosencrantzisDead says, giving the false impression that the “Institute” has some impressive accreditation might qualify as a breach of the law.

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7. Joe - January 5, 2017

Fair play EWI. The Dublin Institute for Culture and Knowledge has a certain ring to it. Reminds me of my collidge days when some boys founded the Catholic University News and Times – a kind of Collidge Sun/Daily Mail in opposition to the then dominant left-leaning collidge newspapers.

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