Circular 9/2022: Unidentified deposits for 2022 Annual Fee payments
11 August 2022
To: National Department of Health
Provincial Departments of Health
Private Health Providers
All stakeholders
SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED DEPOSITS: 2022 ANNUAL FEES PAYMENTS
- PURPOSE
1.1. The purpose of this circular is to address a growing concern that the South African Nursing Council (SANC) is currently experiencing regarding the payments which are made by the Nurse Practitioners without including their SANC reference number together with the service they are paying for.
1.2. This circular also seeks to outline the process which should be followed for tracing and reallocation of incorrectly referenced payments or payments that are made without any reference whatsoever.
- BACKGROUND
2.1 During the 2022 Annual Practising Certificate season, the SANC received a high number of payments for annual fees which were not properly referenced, therefore, many of these payments could not be allocated to the Nurse Practitioners’ SANC membership accounts. As a result, the Nurse Practitioners could not be issued with their Annual Practising Certificates and were removed from the Register for non-payment of annual fees.
2.2 We urge the Nurse Practitioners who know that they have made payments for their 2022 annual fees but are removed from the register for non-payment of 2022 annual fees to urgently contact the SANC so that we can assist them in tracing their payments, and where successful, allocate the payments to their SANC membership account.
2.3 The South African Nursing Council uses the Reference Deposit Account for payment of Fees and Fines payable by our stakeholders. The reference consists of two parts:
2.3.1 Your SANC reference number (8 digits) – which is used to identify who the payment is for.
2.3.2 A payment type code (7 CAPITAL LETTERS) written immediately after the SANC reference number – which is used for identifying what the payment is for.
The following line is an example of what a correct reference will look like when making annual fee payment:
12345678ANLFEES
In the above example, ‘12345678‘ is the Nurse practitioner’s SANC reference number and ‘ANLFEES‘ is the payment type code. You will notice that the payment reference number is always 15 characters long.
PLEASE NOTE that the above reference is only an example, and you should not use the above details for making any payment. You must use your own SANC reference number as the reference followed by an appropriate payment type code.
2.4 Listed in the tables below are all the PAYMENT TYPE CODES that are in use at the South African Nursing Council:
TO BE USED BY INDIVIDUALS
Section | Payment | To be used for paying for: |
7(1)(a) | ADGUILT | Admission of guilt fines |
2(1)(c) | ANLFEES | Annual Fees |
2(1)(g) | APPFEES | Application Fees (foreign applications) |
2(1)(k) | CETSFEE | Certificate of Status Fee |
2(1)(l) | DUPCFEE | Replacement Certificate Fee |
2(1)(m) | EXAMFEE | Examination Fees (foreign application exams) |
2(1)(n) | EXTRFEE | Extract Fees (extract from the register) |
2(1)(q) | LATEFEE | Late Entry Fees (foreign exam applicants) |
2(1)(s) | ADDQUAL | Registration Fees (additional qualifications) |
2(1)(t) | ASSESSR | Registration Fees (assessors, moderators, verifiers) |
2(1)(v) | REGFPRA | Registration Fees (practitioners) |
2(1)(x) | REMAFEE | Remarking Fees (exams) |
2(1)(y) | RESTFEE | Restoration Fees |
2(1)(aa) | TRANFEE | Transcript of Training Fees |
2(1)(b) | VERIFEE | Verification Fees |
SALEDDS | Purchasing of Distinguishing Devices | |
POSTAGE | Postage | |
OTHRFEE | Other fees or payments (not mentioned above) |
TO BE USED BY INSTITUTIONS/ORGANISATIONS/COMPANIES
Section | Payment | To be used for paying for: |
2(1)(a) | ACFLEEN | Accreditation Fees – Nursing Education Institution |
ACFRENE | Accreditation Fees – Reaccreditation of a Nursing Education Institution | |
2(1)(b) | ACFNEPR | Accreditation Fees – Nursing Education Programme |
2(1)(c) | ANLFEES | Annual Fees on behalf of your employees |
2(1)(d) | ANNFNEI | Annual Nursing Education Institution Fee |
2(1)(e) | APFAPCE | Application Fees |
2(1)(j) | AUDVFEE | Audit Visit Fees |
2(1)(m) | EXAMFEE | Examination Fees (candidates) |
2(1)(o) | FVFCLNC | Focus Visit Fees (clinical facilities) |
2(1)(p) | FVFENEI | Focus Visit Fees (nursing education institution) |
2(1)(q) | LATEFEE | Late Entry Fees (exam candidates) |
2(1)(s) | ADDQUAL | Registration Fees (additional qualifications) |
2(1)(u) | REGFLEN | Registration Fees (learners) |
2(1)(v) | REGFPRA | Registration Fees (practitioners) |
OTHRFEE | Other fees or payments (not mentioned above) |
- UNIDENTIFIED DEPOSITS
3.1 Affected Nurse Practitioners are required to send their proof of payment (not bank statement) and SANC reference number to apc@sanc.co.za or bmanganyi@sanc.co.za.
To enable successful tracing the proof of payment should at least have the following information:
3.1.1 Beneficiary/Recipient Account Number
3.1.2 Beneficiary/Recipient Reference
3.1.3 Date of payment
3.1.4 Amount Paid
3.2 The contents of this communique should be brought to the attention of all Nurse Practitioners in all health establishments.
3.3 The Nurse Practitioners are also reminded that according to Section 44 (2)(b) of the Nursing Act, a person whose name has been removed from the register must cease to practise as a Nurse Practitioner and is precluded from performing any act which he or she, in his or her capacity as a registered person, was entitled to perform.
3.4 For further information in respect of this communique, kindly contact Mr B Manganyi, Acting Manager: Revenue Collections and Sales at bmanganyi@sanc.co.za or Tel: 012 420 1081.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed)
MS SA MCHUNU
REGISTRAR AND CEO
SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING COUNCIL
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