Social Service Professions Act, 1978 (Act No. 110 of 1978)

Chapter II : Registration of Social Workers, Student Social Workers, Social Auxiliary Workers and Persons Practising other Professions in respect of which Professional Boards have been established

18. Registration of social auxiliary workers

Purchase cart Previous page Return to chapter overview Next page

 

(1) The council may, on application made in the prescribed manner, register any person as a social auxiliary worker who holds any qualification referred to in subsection (2), complies with the prescribed conditions and satisfies the council that he is a fit and proper person to be registered as a social auxiliary worker.

 

(2) The council may by rule prescribe the qualifications obtained in the Republic which entitle the holder thereof to registration as a social auxiliary worker, and the conditions subject to which such registration may take place.

 

(3) Different qualifications and conditions may be prescribed in respect of different categories of social auxiliary workers.

 

(4) A condition referred to in subsection (2) may pertain to the passing of an examination and the payment of fees prescribed for such examination.

[Section 18(4) inserted by section 12 of Act No. 22 of 1993]

 

[Section 18 substituted by section 10 of Act No. 48 of 1989]