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Sector Codes - Effective Date - Clarification The clarification statement explains that if a company falls within the sector code it must apply that code as from the date of publishing of the sector code. The date of publishing refers not to the date that the minister signed the notice (which is generally some weeks prior to publishing), but the date of publishing of the gazette. In the case of the ICT Sector code, this is 6th June 2012. A problem that cropped up is a company may have been half-way through its verification using the Codes of Good Practice when the ICT sector code was gazetted. The question we asked was must the verification agency redo the verification because the date of issue on the certificate would be after the date of gazetting of the sector code. The dti’s statement also clarifies this. It says that any verification that  was begun, i.e applied for verification, prior to the gazetting of the sector code would use the Codes of Good Practice, whereas a verification applied for after the sector codes were gazetted would need to follow the sector code.

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