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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

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Disaster Management Volunteer Regulations, 2010

17. Termination of volunteer's membership

 

 

(1) A volunteer ceases to be a volunteer—
(a) when the volunteer terminates his or her enrolment as a volunteer by seven days' written notice to the head of the centre;
(b) when the volunteer's enrolment is by written notice terminated by the head of the centre on account of misconduct resulting from breach of the Undertaking/ Code of Conduct signed by the volunteer in terms of regulation 6(1)(e);
(c) in the event of the occurrence of any of the circumstances contemplated in regulation 5(2)(a) or (b) or (c);
(d) when the volunteer, having been requested in terms of regulation 9(1) to undergo training, fails to respond within seven days to a written warning from the head of the centre for not reporting for training;
(e) when the volunteer fails to maintain the required level of competency; or
(f) when the volunteer, without acceptable reason, refuses, neglects or fails to report for duty after having been instructed to do so.

 

(2) When a volunteer ceases to be a volunteer in terms of subregulation (1) or is transferred in terms of regulation 16, the volunteer must within seven days of the occurrence of any such event, return to the head of the centre, the disaster management volunteer identity card issued to him or her in terms of regulation 6(3){b) and any suitable clothing and equipment issued to him or her in terms of regulations 12 and 13,respectively.