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Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979)

Board Notices

Notice Concerning the Conditions of Employment of Dental Technicians who are Employees

Annexures

Annexure G : Pension Fund For Dental Technician Employees

1. Definitions

 

Any terms used in this Annexure and which are defined in the Dental Technicians Act 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979, as amended by Act No. 43 of 1997), shall have the same meaning as in the Act, and unless inconsistent with the context—

 

"Council"

means the South African Dental Technicians Council established in terms of the Dental Technicians Act 1979, as amended;

 

"employee"

means a registered dental technician or dental technologist or laboratory assistant or any other category of registration on the register of practitioners who is in the employ of a dentists [sic] or dental technician and shall not include a dental technician contractor or a dental supplier;

 

"employers"

means dentists who are employers of dental technicians and dental technicians who are employers of dental technicians and, in relation to any particular employee, the "employee" shall mean the particular employer by whom he/she is for the time being employed;

 

"Fund"

means the South African Dental Technicians Employees Pension Fund;

 

"locum tenens"

means an employee who is employed to relieve a regular employee or a dental technician contractor for any period during which a regular employee or a dental technician contractor is absent on sick leave or other leave;

 

"member"

means an employee who becomes a member of the fund and who has not ceased to be a member under the provisions of the rules of the fund;

 

"part-time employee"

means an employee who is employed by the same employer, in addition to his fultime [sic] employees, on not more than 3 (three) days in any week;

 

"pensionable salary''

means the greater of—

(a) the annual rate of the member's basic salary or wages on the date that the member enters the fund and on the first day of May each year thereafter; and
(b) the gross earnings as stated on the member's employee tax certificate IRP5 issued by the employer for the 12 (twelve) months ending on the last day of February prior, or in respect of a member who is a provisional tax payer, the equivalent thereof;

 

"trustees"

means the persons who supervise and control the fund and who have been appointed as such by the Council.