| (1) | The categories of registration are determined by: |
| (a) | the contractor grading designation contemplated in regulation 11; |
| (b) | the status of a contractor as a potentially emerging enterprise; |
| (c) | from a date determined by the Minister in the Gazette, recognition status in terms of a best practice recognition scheme; and |
| (d) | from a date determined by the Minister in the Gazette, the B-BBEE recognition level of a contractor in terms of an applicable code of good practice issued in terms of section 9 of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 53 of 2003, |
[Regulation 6(1)(d) substituted by regulation 7 of Notice No. R. 1224 dated 14 November 2008]
and must be reflected by alpha-numerical characters, where the first three characters denote the contractor grading designation and the following characters reflect the status of the contractor referred to in paragraphs (b), (c) and (d).
| (2) | A contractor may only be registered in a category contemplated in sub-regulation (1) ifthat contractor satisfies the requirements for such registration determined in these Regulations. |
