118Claims by persons as to specialist registration

118 Claims by persons as to specialist registration

118 Claims by persons as to specialist registration

(1) A person who is not a specialist health practitioner must not knowingly or recklessly—

(a) take or use the title of “specialist health practitioner”, whether with or without any other words; or

(b) take or use a title, name, initial, symbol, word or description that, having regard to the circumstances in which it is taken or used, indicates or could be reasonably understood to indicate—

(i) the person is a specialist health practitioner; or

(ii) the person is authorised or qualified to practise in a recognised specialty; or

(c) claim to be registered under this Law in a recognised specialty or hold himself or herself out as being registered under this Law in a recognised specialty; or

(d) claim to be qualified to practise as a specialist health practitioner.

Maximum penalty—

(a) in the case of an individual—$60,000 or 3 years imprisonment or both; or

(b) in the case of a body corporate—$120,000.

(2) A person must not knowingly or recklessly—

(a) take or use the title of “specialist health practitioner”, whether with or without any other words, in relation to another person who is not a specialist health practitioner; or

(b) take or use a title, name, initial, symbol, word or description in relation to another person who is not a specialist health practitioner that, having regard to the circumstances in which it is taken or used, indicates or could be reasonably understood to indicate—

(i) the other person is a specialist health practitioner; or

(ii) the other person is authorised or qualified to practise in a recognised specialty; or

(c) claim another person is registered under this Law in a recognised specialty or hold the other person out as being registered under this Law in a recognised specialty if the other person is not registered in that recognised specialty; or

(d) claim another person is qualified to practise as a specialist health practitioner if the person is not a specialist health practitioner.