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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Registration, authorisation to practise within scope of practice, and practising certificates - Applications

10: Provisional registration

You could also call this:

"Temporary social worker registration with special conditions"

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If you are registered as a social worker provisionally, you must have conditions in your registration that are right for your situation. You can be provisionally registered for a certain amount of time, and if you have been provisionally registered before, the total time cannot be more than 8 years, as stated in section 14. If section 14 does not apply to you, your provisional registration can be for up to 2 years, and the total time, including any previous registrations, cannot be more than 8 years.

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Part 2Registration, authorisation to practise within scope of practice, and practising certificates
Applications

10Provisional registration

  1. A person registered provisionally must be registered with conditions in their individual scope of practice appropriate to their circumstances.

  2. The duration of any period of provisional registration of a person to whom section 14 applies (or of any period for which the provisional registration of such a person is renewed) must be such that, when it is added to the duration of any previous period or periods of provisional registration of the person, the total is no more than 8 years.

  3. The duration of any period of provisional registration of a person to whom section 14 does not apply (or of any period for which the provisional registration of such a person is renewed)—

  4. must be no more than 2 years; and
    1. must be such that, when it is added to the duration of any previous period or periods of limited registration of the person, the total is no more than 8 years.

      Notes
      • Section 10(1): replaced, on , by section 19 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
      • Section 10(2): amended, on , by section 18(2) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
      • Section 10(3): amended, on , by section 18(2) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).