Western Australian Numbered Acts

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS ACT 2008 (NO. 22 OF 2008) - SECT 127

127 .         Use of title “medical practitioner” or a title of a specialist, or pretending to be registered

        (1)         A person must not —

            (a)         use the title “medical practitioner” unless the person is a registered person; or

            (b)         use a title under which a specialty may be practised that is prescribed under section 37(1) unless that person is registered to practise that specialty; or

            (c)         advertise, or otherwise hold out or imply, that the person is registered or entitled, either alone or with others, to practise medicine or a specialty, unless that person is a registered person.

        Penalty:

            (a)         for a first offence, a fine of $2 500, and a daily penalty of $100;

            (b)         for a second or subsequent offence, a fine of $5 000, and a daily penalty of $200.

        (2)         Subsection (1)(b) does not apply in relation to the title under which a specialty may be practised until the day 6 months after the day on which that title is prescribed under section 37(1).

        (3)         Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to a newspaper proprietor or printer who publishes an advertisement unless he or she has been notified in writing by the registrar before the advertisement was published that the advertisement contravenes subsection (1)(c).