7.1. Each training office must register 1 (one) person with SAICA as a training officer.
7.2. The training officer must be an employee (as defined in the Labour Relations Act) or partner of the
accredited training office.
7.3. An individual may be appointed as the training officer at more than one training office within the same
company/partnership (national training officer).
7.4. An individual may be appointed as the training officer at more than one separate, unrelated training
office provided that the training officer is a partner in or director of all the training offices to which he
has been appointed as training officer.
7.5. There must be a CA(SA) actively involved in the training programme at each accredited training office.
7.6. The training officer must be available for the duration of any visit at each accredited training office for
which he is responsible. If a site visit is conducted, the training officer must be physically present for
the visit.
7.7. The training officer must, on behalf of the organisation, accept responsibility for the training of trainee
accountants, in accordance with the requirements of SAICA.
7.8. The person registered as a training officer must:
7.8.1. be a CA(SA) and a registered assessor;
7.8.2. in the case of a training office accredited as an Audit and Assurance training office, the training officer
must be an RA; and
7.8.3. meet all the requirements stipulated in these Regulations and the accreditation criteria as set out in
Annexure 2 of these Regulations.
7.9. For new accreditations, if the prospective training officer is not already a registered assessor, they
must be registered as a SAICA assessor before the accreditation of a training office will be finalised.
7.10. Where there is a change in training officer, the new training officer must meet the requirements to be
registered by SAICA as an assessor, within 6 (six) months from the date of appointment as a training
officer.
7.11. The training officer should be sufficiently senior and experienced to be able to enforce the provisions
and requirements of the Training Regulations within the training office and there must, accordingly, be
direct reporting lines and clear communication lines between the training officer and executive
management.
7.12. SAICA may refuse to register a person as a training officer or may cancel a person’s registration as a
training officer, if such person has been found guilty by a committee of SAICA of any offence in terms
of the By-laws or the Code of Professional Conduct, or, where applicable, has been found guilty of
improper conduct by a committee of the IRBA.
