4.1. | Individual practitioners shall ensure that they are in possession of the standard certificate of attendance for every activity that they have attended. They shall keep these for at least a further two years after completion of the cycle so that their certificates shall be available if required for random compliance verification. |
4.2. | The CPD Committee may conduct compliance verification of individual practitioners at least once a cycle on a randomly selected sample of practitioners, either through the AHPCSA CPD Administration online-platform, or through the request of a hard copy of a CPD Individual Activity Form, with relevant annexures. |
4.3. | When an individual practitioner is selected for compliance verification, he/she is obliged to forward the Individual Activity Record for each profession in which he / she is registered as per Annexure A that may have been obtained during the CPD cycle under review to the Registrar within 21 days on receipt of notification and/or allow the Registrar to extract the necessary information from the AHPCSA CPD Administration online-platform. For Level 3 qualifications a certified copy of the qualification is required. The required documents may be submitted in one of the following ways: |
(a) | Paper copies: Send by registered post to The Registrar, AHPCSA, Private Bag X28, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040; |
(b) | By hand delivery to the Registrar, AHPCSA, Castelli Suite, ll Villaggio, 5 De Havilland Crescent South, Persequor Technopark, Pretoria, or |
(d) | if the AHPCSA CPD Administration online-platform is applicable, made available through the platform subject to being uploaded within the prescribed time frames. |
4.4. | Non-compliance with any CPD requirement is an act or omission in respect of which council or the relevant professional board may take disciplinary action in terms of Section 29 of the Act and these Guidelines. |
[Guideline 4 substituted by Board Notice 170, GG45536, dated 26 November 2021]