(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing or restricting the practice, services or activities of: (1) Any person licensed in this state by any other law from engaging in the profession or occupation for which he is licensed; (2) any person employed as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant by the government of the United States, if such person provides occupational therapy solely under the direction or control of the organization by which he is employed and limits the use of such title to such employment; (3) any person pursuing a course of study leading to a degree or certificate in occupational therapy at an accredited or approved educational program if such activities and services constitute part of a supervised course of study and if such person is designated by a title which clearly indicates his or her status as a student or trainee; or (4) any person fulfilling the supervised field work experience requirements of section 20-74b if such activities and services constitute a part of the experience necessary to meet the requirements of that section.

(b) Any occupational therapist who is licensed or authorized to practice in another state, United States possession or country who is either in this state for the purposes of consultation, provided such practice is limited to such consultation for less than thirty days in a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year, or for conducting a teaching or clinical demonstration in Connecticut with a program of basic clinical education, graduate education or postgraduate education in an approved school of occupational therapy or its affiliated clinical facility or health care agency or before a group of licensed occupational therapists, provided such teaching demonstration is for less than thirty days in a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year, shall not be prohibited from such consultation or teaching by this chapter.

(c) No provision of this chapter shall be construed to prohibit physicians or qualified members of other licensed or legally recognized professions from using occupational therapy as part of or incidental to their profession, under the statutes applicable to their profession, except that such persons may not hold themselves out under the title occupational therapist or as performing occupational therapy.

(P.A. 78-253, S. 5, 11.)