South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts43—Restrictions on provision of medical treatment by unqualified persons
(1) A person—
(a) must
not provide medical treatment of a prescribed kind; and
(b)
cannot recover a fee or other charge, or any part of such a fee or charge, for
medical treatment provided by the person,
unless, at the time the treatment was provided—
(c) the
person was a qualified person; or
(d) the
person provided the treatment through the instrumentality of a
qualified person.
(2) A person who
contravenes subsection (1)(a) is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $50 000 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(3)
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to medical treatment provided
by an unqualified person in prescribed circumstances or pursuant to an
exemption under subsection (4).
(4) The Governor may,
by proclamation, exempt a person from subsection (1) if of the opinion
that good reason exists for doing so in the particular circumstances of the
case.
(5) An exemption under
subsection (4) may be subject to such conditions as the Governor thinks
fit and specifies in the proclamation.
(6) A person who
contravenes, or fails to comply with, a condition of an exemption under this
section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $50 000.
(7) The Governor may,
by proclamation, vary or revoke a proclamation under this section.
(8) In this
section—
"qualified person", in relation to medical treatment, means a person
authorised by or under this Act or any other Act to provide that treatment.