SASSETA must in accordance with any requirements that may be prescribed:
| 9.1 | develop a sector skills plan within the framework of the national skills development strategy; |
| 9.2 | implement its sector skills plan by— |
| 9.2.1 | establishing learnerships; |
| 9.2.2 | approving work-place skills plans; |
| 9.2.3 | allocating grants in the prescribed manner and in accordance with any prescribed standards and criteria to employers, education and training providers and workers; |
| 9.2.4 | monitoring education and training provision to the sector, |
| 9.3 | promote learnerships by— |
| 9.3.1 | identifying workplaces in the sector for practical work experience; |
| 9.3.2 | supporting the development of learning materials; |
| 9.3.3 | improving the facilitation of learning; and |
| 9.3.4 | assisting in the conclusion of learnership agreements; |
| 9.4 | register learnership agreements; |
| 9.5 | perform the functions of an education and training Quality assurance body as provided in the South African Qualifications Authority Act and relevant regulations; |
| 9.6 | when required to do so, collect the skills development levies and disburse the levies allocated to it in terms of sections 8(3)(b) and 9(b) of the Skills Development Levies Act; |
| 9.7 | liaise with the National Skills Authority on— |
| 9.7.1 | the national skills development policy; |
| 9.7.2 | the national skills development strategy; and |
| 9.7.3 | SASSETA'S sector skills plan; |
| 9.8 | submit to the Director-General: |
| 9.8.1 | any budgets, reports and financial statements on SASSETA's income and expenditure that it is required to prepare in terms of the Public Finance Management Act; and |
| 9.8.2 | plans and reports on the implementation of SASSETA's sector skills plan and service level agreement; |
| 9.9 | liaise with the employment services of the Department and any education body established under any law regulating education in the Republic to improve information— |
| 9.9.1 | about employment opportunities; and |
| 9.9.2 | between education and training providers and the labour market; |
| 9.10 | subject to section 14 of the Act, appoint staff necessary for the performance of its functions; |
| 9.11 | promote the national standard established in terms of section 30B of the Act; |
| 9.12 | conclude a service level agreement for each financial year, with the Director-General concerning— |
| 9.12.1 | SASSETA's performance of its functions in terms of the Act and the national skills development strategy; |
| 9.12.2 | SASSETA's annual business plan; and |
| 9.12.3 | any assistance that the Director-General is to provide to SASSETA in order to enable it to perform its functions; |
| 9.13 | perform any other duties imposed by the Ad or the Skills Development Levies Act or consistent with the purposes of the Act; and |
| 9.14 | perform its functions in accordance with the Act, the Skills Development Levies Act and this constitution. |
