FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION.—If a person procures or causes to be procured his registration by means of any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, the registrar may, on receipt of sufficient evidence to that effect, report the matter to the council and, on the written order of the president, attested by the seal of the council, erase the name of such person from the register and make known the fact and the cause thereof in the British Columbia _Gazette_, and after such notice has appeared such person shall cease to be a registered practitioner, and to enjoy any of the privileges conferred by registration, without the express sanction of the council (_ib._, s. 39). To wilfully procure or attempt to procure registration by false representations or declarations is punishable by a penalty not exceeding $100. To knowingly aid or assist therein is punishable with a penalty of from $20 to $50 for each offence (_ib._, s. 40). UNLAWFUL PRACTICES.—It is not lawful for any person not registered to practise medicine or surgery for hire, gain, or hope of reward. To so practise or profess to practise, or advertise to give advice in medicine or surgery, is punishable with a penalty of from $25 to $100 (_ib._, s. 41). For a person to wilfully or falsely pretend to be a physician, doctor, or medical, surgical, or general practitioner, or assume any title, address, or description other than he actually possesses and is legally entitled to, is punishable by a penalty of from $10 to $50 (_ib._, s. 42). A person not registered who takes or uses any name, title, addition, or description implying or calculated to lead people to infer that he is registered or recognized by law as a physician, surgeon, or licentiate in medicine or surgery is punishable with a penalty of from $25 to $100 (_ib._, s. 43). Costs may be awarded in addition to the penalty against an offender, and on default of payment he may be committed to the common jail for one month unless the costs are sooner paid (_ib._, s. 47). UNREGISTERED PERSONS.—No one but a person registered under this act is entitled to receive any charge for any medical or surgical advice or attendance or the performance of any operation or for any medicine that he may have prescribed (_ib._, s. 44). Appointments as medical officers, physicians, or surgeons in any branch of the public service, or in a hospital or a charitable institution not supported wholly by voluntary contribution, are conferred on registered persons only (_ib._, s. 45). No certificate required from any physician or surgeon or medical practitioner is valid unless the signer is registered (_ib._, s. 46). EVIDENCE.—In a prosecution, the burden of proving registration is upon the person charged (_ib._, s. 48).