(1) A public officer employed in an office of the Registry of Companies and Intellectual Property shall not prepare, or help prepare, a document to be filed under this Act unless required or authorised to do so by this Act, or any other Act, including the regulations under that Act, a written direction of the Registrar or an order of a court.
(2) A public officer who contravenes subsection (1) is liable to disciplinary action by service commission which appointed him or her.