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

Chapter 3 : Disciplinary Powers of the Council

26. Effect of suspension or removal of name from register and restoration of name to register

 

(1) Any practitioner who has under this Act been suspended from the practice of any profession in respect of which he is registered or any former practitioner whose name has been removed from the register by virtue of any penalty imposed under section 24(1) (c), or 32(3), shall be disqualified from practising any profession in respect of which he is or was registered, as the case may be, or from performing any Act specially pertaining to any such profession, and any registration certificate issued to him shall be deemed to be cancelled, and he shall cease to indicate any such profession, and any registration certificate issued to him shall be deemed to be cancelled, and he shall cease to indicate any such profession upon his nameplate or in any other manner, until—
(a) in the case of a suspension, the period of suspension has expired; or
(b) in the case of a removal of his name from the register, his name has been restored to the register.

 

(2) [Section 26(2) deleted by section 14(a) of Act No. 108 of 1985]

 

(3) The council may —
(a) after the expiry of such period as the council may in each case determine;
(b) upon receipt of a written application by a person referred to in subsection (1) whose name has been removed from the register; and

[Section 26(3)(b) substituted by section 14(b) of Act No. 108 of 1985]

(c) upon payment of the prescribed fees,

instruct the registrar to restore the name of that person to the register on such conditions as the council may determine.