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Social Service Professions Act, 1978 (Act No. 110 of 1978)

Chapter II : Registration of Social Workers, Student Social Workers, Social Auxiliary Workers and Persons Practising other Professions in respect of which Professional Boards have been established

17B. When qualification will not serve as prescribed qualification

 

(1) If it appears to the council
(a) that any provision of this Act is not being properly complied with by any training institution; and
(b) that such improper compliance is having or may have an adverse effect on the standards maintained at that training institution in respect of education and training in any profession in respect of which a professional board has been established, the Minister may, on the recommendation of the council, by notice in the Gazette declare that any specified degree, diploma or certificate awarded by such training institution after a date specified in the notice will not serve as a prescribed qualification.

[Section 17B(1) substituted by section 12 of Act No. 102 of 1998]

 

(2) The Minister may, if it appears to him or her upon representations made by the council that satisfactory provision has been made for complying with the requirements of this Act by any training institution concerned in respect of any degree, diploma or certificate which is the subject of a notice issued under subsection (1), withdraw the said notice.

[Section 17B(2) substituted by section 12 of Act No. 102 of 1998]

 

(3) [Section 17B(3) deleted by section 9 of Act No. 22 of 1993]

 

[Section 17B inserted by section 9 of Act No. 48 of 1989]