7   Registration necessary for certain representations

(1)  A person who is not a registered chiropractor must not indicate that the person practises chiropractic or is qualified to practise chiropractic.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2)  Without limiting the ways in which a person may be taken to have indicated that the person is qualified to practise chiropractic or that the person practises chiropractic, a person is taken to have so indicated if the person uses:

(a)  any name, initials, word, title, symbol or description that (having regard to the circumstances in which it is used) indicates, or is capable of being understood to indicate, or is calculated to lead a person to infer, that the person is qualified to practise chiropractic or that the person practises chiropractic, or

(b)  any name, title or description prescribed by the regulations.

Note. Section 10AC of the Public Health Act 1991 prohibits spinal manipulation by persons who are not registered chiropractors, medical practitioners, osteopaths or physiotherapists.