(1) No person, association or institution other than the Council shall confer, grant or issue, or hold himself or itself out as entitled to confer, grant or issue, any degree, diploma, licence, certificate or any other document stating or implying that the holder, grantee or recipient thereof is qualified to practise the Homoeopathic system of medicine.
(2) Any contravention of the provisions of sub-section
(1) shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to one ithousand rupees, or with both; and if an association or institution is guilty of such contravention, every member thereof who knowingly or wilfully authayises or permits the contravention, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.