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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Enforcement and other matters - Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners - Health and safety medical practitioners

188: Offence to impersonate health and safety medical practitioner

You could also call this:

“It's illegal to pretend you're a health and safety medical practitioner”

You are not allowed to pretend to be a health and safety medical practitioner if you are not one. This means you can’t say or act like you are a health and safety medical practitioner when you’re not. If you do this, you are breaking the law.

If you break this law and pretend to be a health and safety medical practitioner, you can get in trouble. If you are found guilty, you might have to pay a fine of up to $10,000.

This rule is part of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. It’s important because it helps make sure that only real health and safety medical practitioners are doing this important job.

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Inspectors and health and safety medical practitioners: Health and safety medical practitioners

188Offence to impersonate health and safety medical practitioner

  1. A person who is not a health and safety medical practitioner must not, in any way, hold himself or herself out to be a health and safety medical practitioner.

  2. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

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