PROFESSIONAL ORDERS AND ALLOCATION OF JURISDICTION

Abstract

This paper deals with some issues related to the difficult identification of public authorities. Recently, the question has risen about Professional Colleges and Orders, in particular in reference to the disqualification measures as a councilor. Except some isolated decisions, both in doctrine and in jurisprudence, the publicist thesis is predominant. Professional Colleges and Orders represent, in fact, auxiliary bodies of public administration, acting, as a rule, through the adoption of administrative acts, including administrative sanctions, as the disqualification, that represents the expression of a very wide discretionary power, apt to influence an elective office.

This measure, for its intrinsic and extrinsic features, can be only subjected to the substantive and procedural rules related to administrative acts of the same kind.

Keywords: Professional Colleges and Orders. Public Authorities. Adoption of Administrative Acts and Administrative Sanctions. Judicial Review