Allied Health Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 63 of 1982)Chapter 4 : Offences, penalties and other judicial matters32A. Other offences, and penalties |
Any person who—
| (a) | procures or attempts to procure for himself or herself or any other person registered under this Act, any certificate, order or prescription referred to in this Act by means of a false representation, whether verbally or in writing, or aids or abets any person in doing so; |
| (b) | makes or causes to be made any unauthorised entry or alteration in or removal from a register or certified copy thereof or extract therefrom or on any certificate issued under this Act; |
| (c) | wilfully destroys or damages or renders illegible or causes to be destroyed, damaged or rendered illegible any entry in the register or, without the permission of the holder thereof, any certificate issued under this Act; |
| (d) | forges or, knowing it to be forged, utters any document purporting to be a certificate issued under this Act; |
| (e) | pretends to be a person registered in terms of this Act; or |
| (f) | supplies or offers to supply to any person not registered under this Act, the Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act No. 56 of 1974), or the Nursing Act, 1978 (Act No. 50 of 1978), any instrument or appliance which can be used, or is claimed to be effective, for the purpose of diagnosing, treating or preventing physical or mental defects, illnesses or deficiencies in man, knowing that such instrument or appliance will be used by such unregistered person for the purpose of performing for gain an act which such unregistered person is in terms of the provisions of this Act or the Health Professions Act, 1974, or Nursing Act, 1978, prohibited from performing for gain, |
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both a fine and such imprisonment.
[Section 32A inserted by section 29 of Act No. 50 of 2000]