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428 PDFTitle:CHIROPRACTORS REGISTRATION ORDINANCEGazette Number:L.N. 208 of 2002
Section:24Heading:Offences and penaltiesVersion Date:13/02/2003


Any person who-

        (a) having been summoned by an inquiry committee to attend as a witness or to produce a document or other thing under section 19 without reasonable excuse refuses or fails to do so;
        (b) attends as a witness before an inquiry committee and, without lawful excuse, refuses or fails to answer any question put to him by the inquiry committee;
        (c) fraudulently obtains registration as a registered chiropractor for himself or any other person;
        (d) obtains registration as a registered chiropractor for himself or any other person by means of any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or statement, either orally or in writing;
        (e) makes or causes to be made any falsification in the register;
        (f) impersonates or falsely represents himself as being the person referred to in any certificate or document presented to the Council or an inquiry committee in connection with its functions under this Ordinance;
        (g) not having his name entered in the register, takes or uses any name, initials, title, addition or description falsely implying that his name is entered in the register;
        (h) not having his name entered in the register, practises chiropractic;
        (i) not being the holder of a practising certificate then in force, practises chiropractic;
        (j) not having his name entered in the register, uses or knowingly permits the use in connection with his business or profession of-
          (i) the description "registered chiropractor"; or
          (ii) initials or abbreviations or words intended to cause, or which may reasonably cause, any person to believe that the person using them is a registered chiropractor; or
        (k) not having his name entered in the register, advertises or represents himself as a registered chiropractor or knowingly permits himself to be so advertised or represented,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50000 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(Enacted 1993)