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

Chapter 2 : Registration of Practitioners and Students

Registration of Practitioners

16F. Educational institutions to furnish council with certain particulars
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(1)Every educational institution at which a qualification can be obtained which entitles any holder thereof to registration under this Act, excluding a university or technikon established by or under an Act of Parliament, shall furnish the council on its request with such information relating to entrance requirements, curricula and syllabuses, examinations and any related matter as the council may from time to time require.

[Section 16F(1) substituted by section 11(a) of Act No. 63 of 1993]

 

(2)If any educational institution referred to in subsection (1) fails or refuses to furnish any information requested by the council under that subsection, or if it appears to the council that any provision of this Act is not being properly complied with by any such educational institution and that such improper compliance is having or may have an adverse effect on the relevant standards of education maintained at that educational institution, the Minister may, on the recommendation of the council, by notice in the Gazette declare that any specified qualification granted by such educational institution after a date specified in the notice shall not entitle any holder thereof to registration under this Act.

[Section 16F(2) substituted by section 11(a) of Act No. 63 of 1993]

 

(3)The Minister may, when it appears to him upon representations made by the council that satisfactory provision has been made for complying with the requirements of this Act by any educational institution referred to in subsection (1) in respect of any qualification which is the subject of a notice issued under subsection (2), withdraw the said notice.

 

(4)A qualification specified in a notice issued under subsection (2) which has been granted by the educational institution to which such notice relates between the date specified in that notice and the date of withdrawal of that notice, shall not entitle the holder thereof to registration under this Act.

 

(5)The council may appoint a person to be present whenever tests are being conducted by any educational institution referred to in subsection (1) in respect of the academic progress made by students at such educational institution and to report to the council upon such tests.

[Section 16F(5) substituted by section 11(b) of Act No. 63 of 1993]

 

(6)The person in charge of an educational institution referred to in subsection (1) shall forthwith notify the council of the termination of the education or training of a student at such institution, whether by reason of the abandonment or completion of education or training or the transfer of such student to another such institution, or for any other reason.

[Section 16F(6) substituted by section 11(b) of Act No. 63 of 1993]

 

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