In these regulations, any word to which a meaning has been assigned in the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2O06), has the same meaning and, unless the context indicates otherwise -

"applicant"

means a private education institution that applies for registration as a private college in terms regulation 3, or a private college that applies for the amendment of its registration or provisional registration in terms of regulation 4;

"accreditation"

means accreditation as defined in section 1 of the General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Act, 2001 (Act No. 58 of 2001 );

"amendment"

means an alteration, as contemplated in sections 35 and 38 of the Act, in the conditions of registration or provisional registration of a private college;

"application for amendment"

means an application made in terms of section 35 of the Act;

"condition"

means a stipulation or directive, as contemplated in section 37 of the Act, that the registrar may impose on a private college;

"conversion of provisional registration"

means a change of provisional registration of a private college to full registration in terms of section 31(6);

"director"

means the director of a company as defined in section 1 of the Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973);

"expiry date"

means a date on which provisional registration contemplated in section 31(3) of the Act expires;

"foreign applicant"

means an applicant who is a foreign juristic person as defined in section 1 of the Act:

"NQF"

means the National Qualifications Framework as contemplated in the South African Qualifications Authority Act, 1995 (Act No. 58 of 1995);

"private college"

means a college as defined in section 1 of the Act;

"programme"

means the sequential learning activities associated with curriculum implementation and leading to the achievement of a qualification registered at levels 2 to 4 of the NQF;

"qualification"

means a qualification as defined in section 1 of the General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Act, 2001 (Act No. 58 of 2001);

"registration"

means the legal authority or licence granted by the registrar of private colleges to a private institution to offer qualifications that are registered at levels 2, 3 or 4 of the NQF in terms of the Act;

"requirements"

means the prescribed criteria contemplated in Chapter 3 of these regulations or any other criteria prescribed in the Act that an applicant or private college must fulfil in order to be registered or maintain its registration;

"site"

means any learning centre, including a campus or learning centre controlled and administered by an applicant or private college;

"the Act"

means the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006 (Act No. 16 of 2006); and

"Umalusi"

means the Council defined in section 1 of the General and Further Education and Training Quality Assurance Act, 2001 (Act No. 58 of 2001).