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Nursing Act, 2005 (Act No. 33 of 2005)

Chapter 2 : Education, Training, Research, Registration and Practice

40. Community service

 

(1) A person who is a citizen of South Africa intending to register for the first time to practise a profession in a prescribed category must perform remunerated community service for a period of one year at a public health facility.

 

(2) A person referred to in subsection (1) must be registered in the category community service.

 

(3) The Minister may, after consultation with the Council, make regulations concerning the performance of the service contemplated in subsection (1), including but not limited to—
(a) the place at which such service is to be performed;
(b) the conditions of employment pertaining to persons who perform such service; and
(c) the categories of registration excluded from such service.