Professional and Technical Surveyors' Act, 1984 (Act No. 40 of 1984)24. Refusal of cancellation of registration |
| (a) | if he is according to the law detained as a mentally ill person; |
| (b) | if he has at any time been convicted of an offence and sentenced in respect thereof to imprisonment without the option of a fine; |
| (c) | if he has at any time been removed from an office of trust on account of improper conduct; or |
| (d) | if he is disqualified for registration in terms of this Act or, before the commencement of this Act, was so disqualified in terms of any other law governing the registration of land surveyors, and may refuse so to register any person who is insolvent or who has assigned his estate for the benefit of, or compounded with, his creditors. |
| (2) | The council shall cancel the registration of any person who subsequent to his registration becomes subject to any of the disqualification's mentioned in subsection (1) or who has been registered in error or on information subsequently proved to be false, or whose right to practise as a professional land surveyor has been cancelled by the court in terms of section 14 of the Land Survey Act, 1927 (Act No. 9 of 1927), and may cancel the registration of a person who subsequent to his registration becomes insolvent or assigns his estate for the benefit of, or compounds with, his creditors, and his name shall then be removed from the register. |
| (3) | The registration of any person shall lapse if such person— |
| (a) | fails to pay any annual fees payable by him, within three months after such fees or portion thereof become due or within such further period as the council may in any particular case allow; or |
| (b) | being a person registered in terms of section 21(1) or 23(1), has for at least 90 consecutive days failed to undergo training referred to in section 20(1)(d) or 22(1)(a)(ii) or (b)(ii), as the case may be, unless any break in training has been condoned by the Chief Surveyor-General, and such person's name shall be removed from the register. |
| (4) | The council shall at the written request of any person registered in terms of this Act, cancel his registration and remove his name from the register, but such cancellation shall not affect any liability incurred by such person prior to the date of such removal. |
| (5) | Subject to the provisions of subsection (1), the council— |
| (a) | shall on application made to it by any person whose registration has lapsed in terms of subsection (3)(a) or has been cancelled in terms of subsection (4); |
| (b) | may on application made to it by any person, other than a person mentioned in paragraph (a), whose registration has been cancelled or has lapsed in terms of this section, and upon payment of the registration and any arrear annual fees (if any) that the council may determine, restore such person's registration. |