South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts42—Use of certain titles or descriptions prohibited
(1) A person who is
not registered on the appropriate register or in the relevant specialty must
not use a prescribed word, or its derivatives, to describe himself or herself
or a service that he or she provides.
Maximum penalty: $50 000.
(2) A person must not,
in the course of advertising or promoting a service that he or she provides
(being a service involving the provision of medical treatment), use a
prescribed word, or its derivatives, to describe a person who is engaged in
the provision of the service but is not registered on the appropriate register
or in the relevant specialty.
Maximum penalty: $50 000.
(3) In this
section—
"prescribed word" means—
(a) in
relation to registration on the medical student register—registered
medical student; or
(b) in
relation to registration on the general register or specialist
register—medical practitioner; or
(c) in
relation to registration in a specialty—the words comprising the name of
the specialty; or
(d) any
other word or expression prescribed by the regulations.