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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Complaints

63: Notification of convictions

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"Telling the Board about social workers who break the law"

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If you are a Registrar of a court in New Zealand and you know a social worker has been convicted of a crime, you must take action. The social worker must have been convicted of a crime that can be punished with imprisonment for 3 months or longer. You will then send a notice of the conviction to the Board, unless the court tells you not to.

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Part 4Discipline
Complaints

63Notification of convictions

  1. This section applies to the Registrar of a court in New Zealand in which a person who the Registrar knows is a social worker registered under this Act is convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment for a term of 3 months or longer.

  2. The Registrar must send a notice of the conviction to the Board, unless the court expressly orders otherwise.

Notes
  • Section 63: replaced, on , by section 89 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).