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Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act No. 101 of 1997)

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Regulations for the Registration of Private Higher Education Institutions, 2016

Chapter 2 : Application Process

3. Application for registration

 

(1) Anyone that intends to establish and maintain a private higher education institution must apply to the registrar in terms of the Act and these regulations.

 

(2) Subregulation (1) also applies to a juristic person established through a merger between institutions, with a resultant loss of the juristic personality of the old institutions and the creation of a new juristic person.

 

(3) An applicant for registration must—
(a) submit the application for registration in full at least eighteen months before the institution is to start operating in the manner determined by the registrar in the Government Gazette; and
(b) send with the application the full fee determined by the registrar by notice in the Government Gazette.

 

(4) If an applicant does not comply with subregulation (3)(a) and (b) the registrar must decline to process the application and return it.

 

(5) The registrar may require an applicant to clarify items in the application or submit additional information before the application is determined.

 

(6) An applicant must promptly notify the registrar if there is any change in the information submitted in the application.