Allied Health Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 63 of 1982)Chapter 4 : Offences, penalties and other judicial matters32. Offences by practitioners and students, and penalties |
| (1) | A practitioner or a student who is not registered as a medical practitioner in terms of the Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act No. 56 of 1974), may not— |
| (a) | pretend, or by any means whatsoever hold himself or herself out, to be a medical practitioner, or make use of the title of medical practitioner or any other title or any name, description or symbol indicating, or calculated to lead persons to infer, that he or she holds the qualifications of a medical practitioner; or |
| (b) | perform any act which does not fall within his or her prescribed scope of practice. |
[Section 32(1) substituted by section 28(a) of Act No. 50 of 2000]
| (2) | A practitioner or student who contravenes any provision of subsection (1), shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both a fine and such imprisonment. |
[Section 32(2) substituted by section 28(b) of Act No. 50 of 2000]
| (3) | The court convicting any practitioner or student of any offence under subsection (2), shall in addition to or in lieu of any sentence referred to in that subsection, order that the name of the practitioner or student concerned be removed from the register, and the court shall thereafter give notice to the registrar of the order. |
| (4) | [Section 32(4) deleted by section 28(c) of Act No. 50 of 2000] |