(1) Subject to this Act, if a person whose name is not registered on the Roll or who is suspended from practising law—
(a) practises law;
(b) wilfully pretends to be an attorney-at-law; or
(c) makes use of any name, title or description implying that, the person is entitled to be recognised or to act as an attorney-at-law,
he or she commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) A person who, not being entitled to act as an attorney-at-law, acts in any respect as an attorney-at-law in any action or matter or in any court in the name or through the agency of an attorney-at-law entitled so to act commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $10,000 or to imprisonment for 2 years.
(3) This section does not extend to—
(a) a public officer or an officer of a statutory board—
(i) drawing up or preparing instruments, or
(ii) appearing for the informant, complainant or plaintiff in a district court,
in the course of his or her duty;
(b) a person employed merely to engross any instrument or proceeding; or
(c) a person drawing or preparing—
(i) a will or other testamentary instrument,
(ii) an agreement under hand only,
(iii) a letter or power of attorney,
(iv) a transfer of stock containing no trust or limitation thereof.
(4) Despite section 671 of the Criminal Code, an information for an offence under this section may be laid at any time within 2 years after the commission of the offence or within 6 months after the first discovery thereof by the informant.