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Allied Health Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 63 of 1982)

Chapter 2 : Registration of Practitioners and Students

Registration of Practitioners

16D. Investigation of matters relating to education or training of certain classes of persons

 

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law contained, any person who has been authorized by the council in writing to investigate any matter relating to the education or training of any class of persons registered under this Act, may, for the purpose of making such investigation, enter any institution or premises, excluding a university or a technikon established by or under an Act of Parliament and any premises of such a university or technikon, utilised in the education or training of any such class of persons.

 

(2) Any person who prevents any person authorised in terms of subsection (1) from entering any institution or premises referred to in that subsection or who hinders him or her in the making therein or thereon of any investigation contemplated in that subsection, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both a fine and such imprisonment.

[Section 16D(2) substituted by section 18 of Act No. 50 of 2000]

 

[Section 16D inserted by section 6 of Act No. 108 of 1985]