In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise—

"accreditation"

means the process of evaluation and recognition by the Council of education programmes offered by educational institutions relating to the planning profession;

"Appeal Board"

means the Appeal Board established by section 24;

"assessment"

means an admission procedure established by the Council, to determine whether an applicant is competent to be registered as a registered person;

"candidate planner"

means a person registered as a candidate planner in terms of section 13(4);

"Council"

means the South African Council for Planners established by section 3;

"Department"

means the national department responsible for the planning profession;

"Director-General"

means the Director-General of the Department;

"educational institution"

means any educational institution which has a department, school or faculty of planning;

"financial year"

means a year ending on 31 March;

"Minister"

means the Minister responsible for the planning profession;

"National Qualifications Framework"

means the National Qualifications Framework as defined in section 1 of the South African Qualifications Authority Act, 1995 (Act No. 58 of 1995);

"planner"

means a person who exercises skills and competencies in initiating and managing change in the built and natural environment in order to further human development and environmental sustainability as contemplated in section 2(a), and who is registered in one or more of the categories contemplated in section 13(4);

"planning profession"

means the persons registered in terms of section 13(4) as candidate planners, technical planners or professional planners;

"prescribe"

means prescribe by rule made by the Council or regulation made by the Minister;

"professional planner"

means a person registered as a professional planner in terms of section 13(4);

"register"

when used as a noun, means the register referred to in section 8(2)(b);

"registered persons"

means persons registered as candidate planners, technical planners or professional planners in terms of section 13(4);

"Registrar"

means the person appointed as Registrar under section 8(1)(a);

"sustainable development"

means the integration of social, economic and environmental factors into planning, implementation and decision making so as to ensure that development serves present and future generations;

"this Act"

means the Planning Profession Act, 2001, and includes any regulation or rule; and

"voluntary association"

means any voluntary association, organisation, institute, institution or other body of planners recognised by the Council in terms of section 17.