For a person to wilfully or falsely pretend to be a physician, doctor, or medical, surgical, or general practitioner, or assume any title, address, or description other than he actually possesses and is legally entitled to, is punishable by a penalty of from $10 to $50 (ib., s. 42).
A person not registered who takes or uses any name, title, addition, or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he is registered or recognized by law as a physician, surgeon, or licentiate in medicine or surgery is punishable with a penalty of from $25 to $100 (ib., s. 43).
Costs may be awarded in addition to the penalty against an offender, and on default of payment he may be committed to the common jail for one month unless the costs are sooner paid (ib., s. 47).
Unregistered Persons.—No one but a person registered under this act is entitled to receive any charge for any medical or surgical advice or attendance or the performance of any operation or for any medicine that he may have prescribed (ib., s. 44).
Appointments as medical officers, physicians, or surgeons in any branch of the public service, or in a hospital or a charitable institution not supported wholly by voluntary contribution, are conferred on registered persons only (ib., s. 45).
No certificate required from any physician or surgeon or medical practitioner is valid unless the signer is registered (ib., s. 46).
Evidence.—In a prosecution, the burden of proving registration is upon the person charged (ib., s. 48).
Registration may be proved by the production of a printed or other copy of the register certified under the hand of the registrar of the council for the time being, and any certificate on such copy purporting to be signed by any person as registrar is prima facie evidence that he is registrar without further proof (ib., s. 49).
Limitations.—Prosecutions under the act must be commenced within six months from the date of the offence (ib., s. 50).
Stay.—The council may stay proceedings in prosecutions (ib., s. 51).