Malaysia legislation
Section 24
Section 24
Penalties for obtaining registration by false pretences, etc.
(a)
procures or attempts to procure registration or approval or a certificate of registration or a permit to practice under this Act by knowingly making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent declaration, certificate, permit, application or representation whether in writing or otherwise;
(b)
wilfully makes or causes to be made any falsification in the
Register;
(c)
forges, alters or counterfeits any certificate of registration or permit to practise under this Act;
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(d)
uses any forged, altered or counterfeited certificate of registration or permit to practise under this Act knowing the same to have been forged, altered or counterfeited;
(e)
impersonates a Consultant Quantity Surveyor, Professional
Quantity Surveyor, Provisional Quantity Surveyor or
Quantity Surveying Technologist;
(f)
buys or fraudulently obtains a certificate of registration or permit to practise under this Act issued to another
Consultant Quantity Surveyor, Professional Quantity
Surveyor,
Provisional
Quantity
Surveyor,
Quantity
Surveying Technologist or Consulting Quantity Surveying
Practice;
(g)
sells any certificate of registration or permit to practise issued under this Act; or
(h)
contravenes subsection 7(1), 8(1), section 24A, 24B, subsection 24D(2) or 25B(5), shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of five hundred ringgit for each day during which the offence continues after conviction.
Restriction on employment of unregistered persons