Offences and penalties

(1) Any person who, (a) procures or attempts to procure registration for himself or for any other person by knowingly, 35 (i) making, or causing to be made, any misleading, false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either orally or, in writing or otherwise; or (ii) producing, or causing to be produced, any false or fraudulent document or certificate; (b) wilfully makes, or causes to be made, any falsification in any matter relating to any of the Registers; (c) advertises or holds himself out as a person authorised or qualified to practice veterinary surgery, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (2) Any person who, not being registered as a veterinary surgeon under this Act, (a) takes or uses any title, addition or description implying or calculated to lead persons to believe that he is registered as a veterinary surgeon, or that he is recognized by law as a person authorized or qualified to practice veterinary surgery; or (b) assumes or uses any affix indicative of any occupational designation relating to the practice of veterinary surgery; or (c) advertises or holds himself out as a person authorised or qualified to practice veterinary surgery, 36 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (3) Any person who, during a period when his registration as a veterinary surgeon under this Act is suspended, or who, not being registered as a veterinary surgeon under this Act, (a) practices veterinary surgery in any of its branches; (b) for reward, diagnoses or offers to diagnose or attempts to diagnose any animal disease, ailment, deformity, defect or injury, or examines or advises upon any physical condition of any animal; (c) prescribes or administers any drug, or any other substance or remedy; applies any apparatus, or performs any operation or manipulation for the cure, treatment or prevention of any animal disease, ailment, deformity, defect or injury; or (d) acts as the assistant or associate of any person who performs any of the acts specified in this subsection, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.