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Social Service Professions Act, 1978 (Act No. 110 of 1978)

Chapter II : Registration of Social Workers, Student Social Workers, Social Auxiliary Workers and Persons Practising other Professions in respect of which Professional Boards have been established

17. Registration of social worker

 

(1) The council may, on application made in the prescribed manner, register as a social worker any person who holds the prescribed qualifications and satisfies the prescribed conditions, and who satisfies the council that he is a fit and proper person to be allowed to practise the profession of social work.

 

(2)
(a) The registrar shall issue to any person registered under subsection (1) a certificate of registration in a form approved by the council and subject to the prescribed conditions.

[Section 17(2)(a) substituted by section 8 of Act No. 22 of 1993]

(b) The registrar may under the prescribed circumstances and on payment of the prescribed fees, issue to prescribed persons, duplicates of such registration certificates or extracts from any register which he is required to keep in terms of this Act.

 

(3) Any person registered in terms of this section or who is deemed to have been registered as a social worker, may use the title social worker.

 

(4) Every person who immediately prior to the commencement of this Act was registered as a social worker in terms of an Act which is repealed by this Act and who is resident in the Republic at such commencement, shall be deemed to be registered as a social worker in terms of this section.

 

(5) The registrar shall in writing advise every person whose application for registration under subsection (1) has been rejected, of the reasons for the rejection.