Engineering Profession Act, 2000 (Act No. 46 of 2000)NoticesRules: Continuing Professional Development and Renewal of Registration, 2014Part A2. Applicability of these Rules to Registered Persons |
Professional Categories
| (1) | These rules apply in respect of all persons registered in a professional category mentioned in section 18(1)(a) of the Act, as a professional engineer, a professional engineering technologist, a professional certificated engineer and a professional engineering technician. |
| (2) | These rules apply in respect of persons registered as engineering technicians in terms of section 14(1) of the Engineering Profession of South Africa Act, 1990 (Act No 114 of 1990), including persons registered as engineering technicians (master) under a regulation promulgated in terms of section 30A(3)(d) of the Professional Engineers' Act, 1968 (Act No 81 of 1968). |
Specified Categories
| (3) | Unless otherwise provided for by Notice by the Council in the Gazette, these rules apply in respect of all persons registered in a specified category established by the Council in terms of section 18(c) of the Act. |
Registered Persons Resident Abroad
| (4) | These rules apply in respect of registered persons who are practicing abroad, subject to the following conditions: |
| (a) | Where a system of continuing professional development is being applied in any particular country, such requirements may be accepted by the Council for purposes of these rules, provided that documentary proof of compliance with such CPD requirements is submitted, which may be in the form of a certification by the relevant accrediting authority in the country concerned. |
| (b) | In the absence of such proof of compliance referred to in sub-clause (a), or in the case where a formal CPO system is not in place in the country concerned, documentary proof of CPD activities undertaken abroad must be submitted to ECSA for evaluation against the requirements of these rules and the Policy. |