| (1) | The authority to approve that an award be made to an educator for long service recognition rests with the employer. |
| (2) | Awards for long service recognition may, subject to this regulation, be made to educators appointed in a permanent capacity. |
| (3) | An employer may make the following awards for long service recognition: |
| (a) | A certificate and, if the educator so wishes, the discounting of a maximum of 10 days available vacation leave in cash after he or she has rendered 20 years of continuous and consistently satisfactory and devoted service. |
| (b) | A certificate and a wrist-watch and, if the educator so wishes, the discounting of a maximum of 15 days available vacation leave in cash after he or she has rendered 30 years of continuous and consistently satisfactory and devoted service. |
| (a) | For purposes of the service requirement contemplated in subregulation (3), service in the Public Service contemplated in section 8 of the Public Service Act, 1994, may be acknowledged, as well as the following service on condition that there is no break in service during the transfer or appointment of the persons concerned: |
| (i) | In terms of a former provincial ordinance; |
| (ii) | rendered in terms of the— |
Precious Stones Act, 1964 (Act No. 73 of 1964);
Water Act, 1956 (Act No. 54 of 1956); and
Development Trust and Land Act, 1936 (Act No. 18 of 1936);
| (iii) | rendered in terms of any law as an educator; |
| (iv) | at a statutory institution in those cases where a function and the personnel therewith were transferred from the Public Service and the same personnel, with a “retransferring” of such function to the Public Service, is appointed again in the Public Service. |
| (b) | An educator to whom a wrist-watch may be granted, may make a choice regarding the wrist-watch he or she wants and such choice is limited to the make and the model (and the distributors thereof). |
| (c) | If an educator elects to discount the available vacation leave referred to in subregulation (3), the actual applicable salary notch of the educator concerned as on the date of qualification for the award shall be used to calculate the amount to be paid to him or her. |
| (d) | If a blind educator qualifies for the award of a wrist-watch, he or she may be permitted to purchase a braille wrist-watch of his or her choice from the South African National Council for the Blind: Provided that the cost involved, which can be arranged by means of an advance to the educator concerned, is limited to the maximum amount of the usual wrist-watch which could be awarded to him or her in terms of paragraph (b). |
| (e) | Wrist-watches may be awarded posthumously subject to the award being made to the surviving spouse only and the educator having already qualified for the award before his or her death. |
