Professional and Technical Surveyors' Act, 1984 (Act No. 40 of 1984)20. Registration of professional surveyors |
| (1) | The requirements for registration as a professional surveyor of any person, other than a person referred to in subsection (4) or (5), shall be as follows, namely: |
| (a) | attainment of the age of 21 years; |
| (b) | the passing of any examination to which the council has granted recognition for the purposes of registration as a professional surveyor as contemplated in section 19(1)(b) or (2); |
| (c) | the passing of an examination regarding laws concerning surveying and related matters as may be prescribed in relation to different categories of professional surveyors; |
| (d) | training for such period, whether within or outside the Republic, and in such practical work as may be prescribed in relation to professional surveyors; |
| (e) | the carrying out of such trial surveys or practical tests as the council may determine; and |
| (f) | the making of a professional oath or affirmation in the prescribed form in relation to the practising of his profession or calling. |
| (2) | The council shall, subject to the provisions of section 24(1), on application in the prescribed form by any person who in the opinion of the council, after consultation with the Chief Surveyor-General in the case of a person who applies to be registered as a professional land surveyor, complies with the requirements mentioned in subsection(1), and upon payment of the registration and annual fees, register any such person as a professional surveyor and cause such person's name to be entered in the appropriate register and a certificate of registration in the prescribed form to be issued to him. |
| (2A) | Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), any person, excluding a person referred to in section 7(4)(a), who desires to be registered as a professional surveyor and who has not passed the examination referred to in subsection (1)(b) and who on a date determined by the council— |
| (a) | has gained at least 15 years' experience in such practical work as in the opinion of the council is of sufficient variety and of a satisfactory nature and standard; and |
| (i) | has gained during this period at least five years' experience in a senior managerial position which in the opinion of the council is of a satisfactory nature; or |
| (ii) | has passed such examination as the education advisory committee, with the concurrence of the council, may accept or determine; and |
| (b) | complies with the requirements referred to in subsection (1)(c),(e) and (f), may within six months after the date of commencement of section 13 of the Regional and Land Affairs Second General Amendment Act, 1993, or such further period as the council may determine, apply to the council to be registered. |
| (2B) | The council shall, subject to the provisions of section 24(1), on application in the prescribed form by any person referred to in subsection(2A), and upon payment of the registration and annual fees, register any such person as a professional surveyor and cause such person's name to be entered in the appropriate register and a certificate of registration in the prescribed form to be issued to him. |
| (3) | A professional surveyor shall, if he has paid the annual fee, be entitled to— |
| (a) | describe himself as a professional surveyor in the category in which he has been registered; |
| (b) | carry on his profession or calling in any part of the Republic; and |
| (c) | indicate his profession or calling or make it known by using the prescribed title after his name. |
| (4) | Any person to whom a certificate was issued in terms of section 12(2) of the Land Survey Act, 1927 (Act No. 9 of 1927), immediately prior to the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements for registration mentioned in this section, and the council shall, subject to the provisions of section 24(1), on application by any such person and upon payment of the registration and annual fees, register such person as a professional surveyor and cause any such person's name to be entered in the appropriate register and a certificate of registration in the prescribed form to be issued to him. |
| (5) | Any person who was registered as a professional land surveyor or was deemed to be so registered in terms of this section as it existed immediately prior to the substitution thereof by the Professional Land Surveyors' and Technical Surveyors' Amendment Act, 1993, shall be deemed to have been registered as a professional surveyor in terms of this section. |
(6)
| (a) | A land surveyor registered under a law repealed by section 48 of the Land Survey Act, 1996, may continue to practise as a professional land surveyor if, prior to 31 December 1997, he or she gives notice to the council of his or her registration under such repealed law. |
| (b) | On receipt of a notice referred to in paragraph (a) the council shall, subject to section 24(1), cause the name of the land surveyor concerned to be entered in the appropriate register. |
| (c) | Any person whose name has been entered in terms of paragraph (b)— |
| (i) | shall be deemed to have been registered as a professional surveyor in terms of this section; and |
| (ii) | shall for the rest of the financial year in which his or her name was so entered, be exempted from the payment of the annual fee contemplated in subsection (3). |
| (d) | No entry contemplated in paragraph (b) shall be made after 31 December 1997. |