New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 107

107 Business document and advertising with misleading titles etc

(1) A person must not exhibit or publish, or cause, permit or suffer to be exhibited or published, any business document or advertisement of any kind whereby any person advertises or holds himself or herself out contrary to section 105 or attempts to do so.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

(2) This section does not apply to the publishing of an advertisement by any person who is a newspaper or magazine proprietor, publisher or printer if the publishing occurs before written notice is given to the person by the Director-General that the advertisement is contrary to section 105.

(3) In this section:
"business document" means any letter or any circular, handbill, placard, card, letter paper, receipt form, or invoice, or any document or paper to be used in connection with any business, practice, or profession.
"publish" includes publish, or cause to be published, by spoken words whether directly or through the medium of any apparatus for the reproduction of sound.