Chartered Accountants Act, 1949
7. Members to be
known as Chartered Accountants
Every member of the Institute in practice shall, and any other
member may, use the designation of a chartered accountant and no member using
such designation shall use any other description, whether in addition thereto
or in substitution therefor:
PROVIDED that nothing contained in this section shall
be deemed to prohibit any such person from adding any other description or
letters of his name, if entitled thereto, to indicate membership of such other
Institute of Accountancy, whether in India or elsewhere, as may be recognized
in this behalf by the Council, or any other qualification that he may possess,
or to prohibit a firm, all the partners of which are members of the Institute
and in practice, from being known by its firm name as Chartered Accountants
Comment: Members of the Institute in practice has
to use the designation of Chartered Accountants. (1984) 56 Com Cas 183