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Five Year Cycle

(1)	Subject to an initial phasing-in period referred to under transitional provisions in rule 13, the CPD system functions in cycles of five years.

(2)

(a)

The five-year cycle of each registered person commences on the anniversary of the date on which such registered person was registered by the council, which date appears on the person's certificate of registration issued by the council, and which date also constitutes the expiry date, as defined in these rules, when such person is required to apply for renewal of his or her registration. The date on which a person has been registered is also obtainable from ECSA's Website www.ecsa.co.za, under "Who is registered".

(b)	Where a person is registered in more than one professional category, the date applicable to the category in which such person first registered will be recorded as the date on which such person's five-year cycle commences, and which date also constituted the expiry date, as defined in these rules.

Credits

(3)	During each cycle of five years every registered person must accumulate a minimum of 25 credits in order to qualify for renewal of his/her registration.

(4)

A registered person may not accumulate less than 3 credits per annum in at least two of the categories of activities referred to in sub-rule 4(6), read with Appendix A of these rules, and may accumulate additional credits each year up to a maximum number of credits as prescribed for each activity listed in column 3 of the table in sub-rule 4(6).

(5)	Additional credits which have been accumulated during any particular year may be carried over to subsequent years of the five year cycle, provided that no more than the maximum permissible credits for the particular activity may be carried over.

Categories of activities for CPD Credits

(6)

CPD credits must be obtained in at least two of the three categories listed below, which categories are more fully described in Appendix A, with at least 5 credits per five year cycle from Category 1. The maximum permissible credits which may be accumulated annually in each category is indicated in column 3, below:

Engineering Profession Act, 2000 (Act No. 46 of 2000)

Notices

Rules: Continuing Professional Development and Renewal of Registration, 2014

Part A

4. General CPD Requirements