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Jun 23, 2008:
Thoko Didiza, the public works minister, has tabled a bill in Parliament which scraps seven pieces of legislation passed in 2000, which aimed to regulate building professions.
In their place a single law will govern all the
building professions.
According to a memorandum on its objects circulated with the text of the bill on Friday, both the public works department and the professions themselves have been struggling with issues of access to the professions, transformation, the lack of a macro strategy, and other shortcomings in the present regulatory model eight years after passage of the seven bills.
The bill provides for registration of professionals in the built environment, and for protection of the public against unprofessional conduct.
It also aims to maintain standards of education and training within the professions.
The professions covered by the bill are architects, landscape architects, civil engineers, property valuers, project managers and quantity surveyors.
