10(1)No training organization shall maintain any action or other proceeding in any court in the Province on any contract in relation to an occupational training program provided by the training organization unless the training organization is registered under this Act for that occupational training program.

10(2)No training organization shall charge or collect any tuition fees or other fees from a person, or a third party on a person’s behalf, in relation to an occupational training program provided by the training organization unless the training organization is registered under this Act for that occupational training program.

10(3)Where a training organization violates subsection (2), the training organization shall, within five days after receipt of a written request from the person who paid the tuition fees or other fees, or from the third party who paid the tuition fees or other fees on the person’s behalf, refund to that person or that third party, as the case may be, any tuition fees and other fees paid.

10(4)The amount of a refund owing under subsection (3) constitutes a debt due by the training organization to the person who paid the fees, or to the third party who paid the fees on the person’s behalf, as the case may be, and may be recovered as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.

10(5)A document signed by the Minister, or bearing a signature purporting to be that of the Minister, stating that on the date specified in the document a training organization was not registered under this Act for the occupational training program specified in the document may be adduced in evidence without proof of the appointment or signature of the Minister, and when so adduced is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the matters stated in the document.