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CONSTRUCTION PLAYERS WANT COSTS REDUCED

27/02/2019 08:11:00 BY KWANELE DHLADHLA

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MBABANE – Contractors are strongly of the view that it would be folly to be made to pay all the outstanding fees prior to revival of a registration certificate.

This submission was made in the document collated by the consortium which comprises of contractors, engineers and architects, and is yet to be submitted to the Construction Industry Council to be incorporated in the draft CIC Regulations. The report was tabled to industry players during a meeting convened at Royal Swazi Spa Hotel yesterday.

The initial clause which was being reacted to stipulated that a contractor, who fails to renew registration until it lapses, would upon application for revival of registration be required to pay all outstanding fees since the lapse or cancellation of registration.

However, the consortium led by Sabelo Nhleko recommended that this should happen only ‘if it can be proven that the contractor has been working without licence.’
The regulations also proposed that a contractor may apply to de-register as such and re-apply to register at a later stage and the contractor shall not be required to pay any outstanding registration fees.

It was also stipulated that an individual or entity whose name has been removed from the register for failure to renew registration would, after notifying the registrar of the desire to be reinstated, pay a reinstatement fee to be determined by the council which should not exceed the amount equivalent to the annual registration fees.

Affiliated

The consortium also recommended that affiliated associations that should register with council as opposed to members.
The regulations also explain that associations which are required to affiliate to the council in terms of section 32 of the CIC Act should be registered with the council upon payment of a registration fee to be determined by council.
“There shall be collaboration between the council and construction industry associations on such spheres of operation as the council and the associations shall from time to time agree,” read the regulations in part.