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

Chapter 1 : Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa: Establishment, Objects and Functions

6. Disqualification for appointment as member, vacation of office by members and filling of vacancies on council

 

(1) No person—
(a) who is an unrehabilitated insolvent;
(b) who in terms of this Act or the Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act No. 56 of 1974), is disqualified from practising his or her profession;

[Section 6(1)(b) substituted by section 7(b) of Act No. 50 of 2000.]

(c) who is not a South African citizen permanently resident in the Republic,

shall be appointed as a member of the council.

 

(2) A member of the council shall vacate his or her office if he or she—
(a) becomes subject to any disqualification contemplated in subsection(1);
(b) ceases to hold any qualification necessary for his or her appointment;
(c) has been absent from more than two consecutive ordinary meetings of the council without the council's leave;
(d) was appointed by the Minister and tenders his or her resignation in writing to the Minister and the Minister accepts his or her resignation;
(dA) was elected by a professional board and tenders his or her resignation to the council and the council accepts his or her resignation;
(e) becomes a patient or State patient as defined in section 1 of the Mental Health Act, 1973 (Act No. 18 of 1973);
(f) is convicted in the Republic or elsewhere of an offence for which he or she is sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine; or
(g) [Section 6(2)(g) deleted by section 7(c) of Act No. 50 of 2000]
(h) becomes impaired to the extent that he or she is unable to carry out his or her duties as a member of the council.

[Section 6(2) substituted by section 7(c) of Act No. 50 of 2000]

 

(3) Any vacancy on the council arising from a circumstance referred to in subsection (2) or caused by the death of a member, shall be filled by appointment or election, as the case may be, by the person or body by whom and in the manner in which the vacating member was required to be appointed or elected, and every member so appointed or elected shall hold office for the unexpired portion of the period of office of the vacating member.

[Section 6(3) substituted by section 7(d) of Act No. 50 of 2000]

 

[Section 6 substituted by section 7(a) of Act No. 50 of 2000]

 

 


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