Public Service Act, 1994 (Act No. 103 of 1994)

Chapter VII : Obligations, Rights and Privileges of Employees

30. Other remunerative work by employees

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(1)No employee shall perform or engage himself or herself to perform remunerative work outside his or her employment in the relevant department, except with the written permission of the executive authority of the department.

 

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) the executive authority shall at least take into account whether or not the outside work could reasonably be expected to interfere with or impede the effective or efficient performance of the employee's functions in the department or constitute a contravention of the code of conduct contemplated in section 41(1)(b)(v).

 

(3)
(a)The executive authority shall decide whether or not to grant permission, contemplated in subsection (1), within 30 days after the receipt of the request from the employee in question.
(b)If the executive authority fails to make a decision within the 30 day period, it would be deemed that such permission was given.

 

[Section 30 substituted by section 26 of Act No. 30 of 2007]