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

Regulations

Regulations relating to the Particulars to be furnished to the Council for keeping of the Register for Nursing Practitioners, the manner of effecting alterations to the Register, and Certificates that may be issued by the Council

8. Removal from the register

 

(1) The Registrar, on instruction of Council, must remove from the register, in accordance with regulation 2(5) of these regulations, the name of a practitioner for any of the reasons contemplated in the Act and specifically —
(a) on failure to pay the prescribed annual fee on a date on which it became due for payment;
(b) by resolution of the Council in terms of the Act;
(c) on expiry of the period of registration under section 33 of the Act; or
(d) on expiry of the period of registration prescribed in terms of the regulations published under Government Notice No. R.765 of 24 August 2007, if the practitioner failed to comply with the prescribed requirements for community service, unless the Council decides otherwise.

 

(2) The Registrar may remove the name of a practitioner from the register in accordance with regulation 2(5) of these regulations -
(a) if such practitioner failed to comply with the conditions relating to continuing professional development prescribed by the Council from time to time; or
(b) by request made on an approved form obtainable from the Council for that purpose, provided an affidavit or affirmation contemplated in section 44(1)(e) of the Act is submitted with such a request.

 

(3) The Registrar must send the required notice of removal to the practitioner by registered post at the postal address appearing in the register.

 

(4) The Council may publish the details of persons removed from the register and the reason for such removal.