Malaysia legislation
Section 24
Section 24
Penalties for obtaining registration by false pretences, etc.
(a)
procures or attempts to procure registration or a certificate of registration under this Act by knowingly making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent declaration, certificate, application or representation whether in writing or otherwise;
(b)
wilfully makes or causes to be made any falsification in the
Register;
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(c)
forges, alters or counterfeits any certificate of registration under this Act;
(d)
uses any forged, altered or counterfeited certificate of registration under this Act knowing the same to have been forged, altered or counterfeited;
(e)
impersonates a registered Person;
(f)
buys or fraudulently obtains a certificate of registration under this Act issued to another registered Person or Engineering consultancy practice;
(g)
sells any certificate of registration issued under this Act; or
(h)
contravenes section 7 or 8, or subsection 7A(1), 24A(1) or 24B(5), shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or to both.
Restriction on employment of unregistered person to provide professional engineering services