| (1) | The council may from time to time prescribe the degrees, diplomas or certificates which may be registered as additional qualifications or the proficiencies which may be registered as specialities. |
| (a) | A social worker or a person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established who desires to have a degree, diploma or certificate other than the prescribed qualification by virtue of which he or she has been registered, or a speciality, registered, shall apply to the registrar, submitting— |
| (i) | such documentary proof that he or she holds the additional qualification in question as the council may require; or |
| (ii) | in the case of an application for registration of a speciality, proof that he or she complies with the prescribed requirements. |
| (b) | If the registrar is satisfied that such additional qualification is a degree, diploma or certificate prescribed in terms of subsection (1), or, in respect of a speciality, that such speciality has been prescribed and that the prescribed requirements have been complied with, he or she shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, cause such degree, diploma or certificate, or speciality, as the case may be, to be entered in the register against the name of the applicant. |
[Section 17C(2) substituted by section 13 of Act No. 102 of 1998]
| (a) | If a social worker or person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established applies to have a speciality registered in terms of this section, but does not satisfy the prescribed requirements for the registration of a speciality, the council may require him or her to pass to the satisfaction of the council, on a date and at a place determined by the council, an examination prescribed under paragraph (b) before examiners appointed by the council, for the purpose of determining whether his or her professional knowledge and skill in the professional field of his or her speciality are adequate to enable him or her to practice the profession of social work or another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established in respect of the speciality concerned. |
| (b) | The examination which shall be conducted for the purposes of paragraph (a) and the fees which shall be paid by persons who sit for such examination shall be as prescribed. |
| (c) | The registrar shall, upon payment of the prescribed fee, cause the speciality of a social worker or person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established who has satisfactorily passed an examination referred to in paragraph (a) to be entered against the name of that social worker or person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established. |
[Section 17C(2A) substituted by section 13 of Act No. 102 of 1998]
| (a) | The registrar shall, on the instruction of the council, remove from the register any degree, diploma or certificate registered as an additional qualification in terms of this section, if in respect of such qualification the name of the holder thereof has been removed from the roll, register or records of the university, college or institution, or society at or from which that social worker or person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established, obtained or acquired such qualification. |
| (b) | The registrar shall, on the instruction of the council, remove from the register any speciality registered in terms of this section, if the social worker concerned, or the person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established ceases to comply with any prescribed requirement for the registration of the speciality in question, or, in the case of a social worker or a person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established in respect of whom a speciality is registered, if such person has lodged with the registrar a written application for the removal of the speciality in question from the register. |
| (c) | A degree, diploma or certificate removed in terms of paragraph (a), or a speciality removed in terms of paragraph (b), shall, on the instruction of the council, be restored by the registrar to the register if the social worker concerned or the person practising another profession in respect of which a professional board has been established— |
| (i) | applies on the prescribed form for such restoration; |
| (ii) | pays the fees (if any) prescribed in respect of such restoration; and |
| (iii) | in the opinion of the council complies with such other requirements (if any) as the council may determine. |
[Section 17C(3) substituted by section 13 of Act No. 102 of 1998]
| (4) | No person shall take up, use or publish in any manner whatsoever any name, title, description or symbol indicating or calculated to lead persons to infer that he or she possesses an additional qualification contemplated in subsection (1), if such qualification has not been entered in the register against his or her name. |
[Section 17C(4) substituted by section 13 of Act No. 102 of 1998]
| (5) | No person registered under this Act shall practice as a specialist or shall pretend to be such a specialist, or shall in any other manner profess to be a person in respect of whom a speciality has been registered, unless the speciality in question has been registered in terms of this section in respect of such person. |
[Section 17C(5) substituted by section 13 of Act No. 102 of 1998]
[Section 17C inserted by section 9 of Act No. 48 of 1989]
