Section 37
General penalty
of Allied Health Professions Act 2016
Any person who commits an offence under this Act or any regulations made under this Act for which no penalty is expressly provided shall, on conviction, be liable—
(a)
in the case of an individual person—
(i)
in respect of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both; or
(ii)
in respect of a second or continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both; and
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(b)
in the case of a body corporate, partnership or society—
(i)
in respect of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit; and
(ii)
in respect of a second or continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit.
(2)
Where an offence under subsection (1) is committed by a body corporate, partnership or a society—
(a)
in the case of a body corporate, the person responsible for the body corporate;
(b)
in the case of a partnership, every partner in the partnership;
(c)
in the case of a society, its office bearers, shall also be guilty of the offence and shall, on conviction, be liable—
(i)
in respect of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both; and
(ii)
in respect of a second or continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.
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