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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

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

11: Temporary registration

You could also call this:

"Working as a social worker for a short time with special rules"

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If you are registered as a social worker temporarily, you will be registered with conditions that relate to where you will be working. You might also have other conditions that apply to your work. When you are registered temporarily, there are rules about how long you can be registered for. Your temporary registration can last for up to 6 months, and if it is renewed, the total time cannot be more than 3 years when added to any previous temporary registrations you have had.

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

11Temporary registration

  1. A person registered temporarily—

  2. must be registered with conditions in their individual scope of practice relating to the institution or place where they intend to practise as a social worker:
    1. may also be registered with other conditions in their individual scope of practice.

      1. The duration of any period of temporary registration of a person (or of any period for which a person's temporary registration is renewed)—

      2. must be no more than 6 months; 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 3 years.

          Notes
          • Section 11(1): replaced, on , by section 21 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).