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Section 27

Penalty for misrepresentation by body corporate

of Accountants Act 1967

ActIn forceProvision 31 of 37
Section 27

Any body corporate which, or any director, officer, or servant thereof who, does any act of such a nature and in such a manner as to hold out that the body corporate is a chartered accountant shall be guilty of an offence and the body corporate shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit and where the act is done by a director, officer or servant of the body corporate the director, officer or servant of it shall also, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.