| (a) | in the prescribed circumstances, or where otherwise authorised by this Act, direct the registrar to remove any name from a register or, upon payment of the prescribed fee, restore thereto, or suspend a registered person from practising his or her profession pending the carrying out of any inquiry in terms of section 21; |
| (b) | appoint examiners and moderators, conduct examinations and grant certificates, and charge the prescribed fees in respect of such examinations or certificates; |
| (c) | subject to prescribed conditions, approve training schools; |
| (d) | consider any matter affecting any profession falling within the ambit of the professional board and make representations or take such action in connection therewith as the professional board considers advisable; |
| (e) | subject to subsection (2), upon application by any person, recognise any qualification held by him or her (whether such qualification has been obtained in the Republic or elsewhere) as being equal, either wholly or in part, to any prescribed qualification, whereupon such person shall, to the extent to which the qualification has so been recognised, be deemed to hold such prescribed qualification; |
| (f) | after consultation with any other professional board or boards, establish a joint standing committee or committees of the board or boards concerned; and |
| (g) | perform such other prescribed functions, and generally, do all such things as the professional board considers necessary or expedient to achieve the objects of this Act in relation to a profession falling within the ambit of the professional board. |
| (2) | No qualification shall, in terms of subsection (1)(e), be recognised as being equal, either wholly or in part, to any prescribed qualification unless that qualification indicates a standard of professional education and training not lower than that prescribed qualification. |
| (3) | The council shall ratify any decision of a professional board relating to a matter not falling entirely within its ambit, and the council shall, for this purpose, determine whether a matter does not fall entirely within the ambit of a professional board. |
[Section 14C inserted by section 9 of Act No. 102 of 1998]
