(1)  Subject to subsections (2) and (3)  –

(a) a person is not entitled to recover a fee or other remuneration for a service that he or she has provided on his or her own account as a chiropractor or osteopath unless he or she was a registered practitioner at the time the service was provided; and

(b) a body corporate is not entitled to recover a fee or other remuneration for or in connection with a service provided in its name or on its behalf by a chiropractor or osteopath unless that chiropractor or osteopath was a registered practitioner at the time the service was provided.

(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to a medical practitioner or physiotherapist recovering fees or other remuneration for providing medical or physiotherapy services.

(3)  Nothing in subsection (1) is to be taken as preventing a person referred to in section 56(2)(b) or (c) from recovering a fee or other remuneration for professional services lawfully provided by that person.

(4)  In an action for the recovery of a fee or other remuneration for a service provided by a chiropractor it is sufficient to state in the particulars of claim or demand the words "for chiropractic services" .

(5)  In an action for the recovery of a fee or other remuneration for a service provided by an osteopath it is sufficient to state in the particulars of claim or demand the words "for osteopathic services" .