To provide for the establishment of a South African Council for Social Service Professions and to define its powers and functions; for the registration of social workers, student social workers, social auxiliary workers and persons practising other professions in respect of which professional boards have been established; for control over the professions regulated under this Act; and for incidental matters.

(English text signed by the State President)

[Assented To: 20 June 1978]

[Long title substituted by section 25 of Act No. 102 of 1998]