Nurses Act, 1950

Improper assumption of title of registered nurse or midwife, etc.

56.—(1) Any person who—

(a) not being a person registered in the register of nurses, takes or uses the name or title of registered nurse or midwife, either alone or in combination with any other words or letters, or any name, title, addition, description, uniform, certificate or badge, implying that the person is registered in the register of nurses or is recognised by law as a registered nurse or a midwife or, save in the case of a registered medical practitioner, implying that such person is specially qualified in midwifery, or

(b) being a person whose name is included in any division of the register, takes or uses any name, title, addition, description, uniform, certificate or badge, or otherwise does any act of any kind, implying that the person is registered in any other division of the register of nurses in which the person's name is not included, or

(c) with intent to deceive, makes use of any certificate issued under this Act to such person or any other person,

shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding, in the case of a first offence, ten pounds, and in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, fifty pounds.

(2) If any person wilfully makes, or causes to be made, any falsification of any mater relating to the register, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine of one hundred pounds.

(3) This section shall come into operation on the establishment date.