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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

66: Professional conduct committees

You could also call this:

"Teams that help decide if social workers behaved properly"

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The Board can appoint a professional conduct committee to look at a particular case or cases. You can think of this committee like a team that helps make decisions about social workers. The committee has two social workers and one person who is not a social worker. The Board can choose who is on the committee and can change the members if needed. When the Board is choosing members for the committee, they think about who would be best to help with the case, and if it would be good to have someone from a particular ethnic or cultural group, like Māori, on the committee.

The Board makes sure that no one from the Board or the Tribunal is on the committee. The Board chooses one member of the committee to be in charge of the meetings. You can find more information about the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

66Professional conduct committees

  1. The Board—

  2. may from time to time appoint, in relation to a particular case or cases of a particular class, 2 social workers and 1 person who is not a social worker to be a professional conduct committee; and
    1. may at any time dissolve or reconstitute a professional conduct committee.

      1. Repealed

      2. In appointing or reconstituting a professional conduct committee, the Board must have regard to—

      3. the desirability of the committee including members with knowledge and expertise relevant to the complaint or conviction concerned; and
        1. whether it is desirable for Māori, or a particular ethnic or cultural group in New Zealand, to be represented on the committee.

          1. No member of the Board or the Tribunal may be a member of a professional conduct committee.

          2. The Board must appoint 1 of the members of each professional conduct committee to preside at its meetings.

          Notes
          • Section 66 heading: replaced, on , by section 94(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(1): amended, on , by section 94(2) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(1)(a): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(1)(b): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(2): repealed, on , by section 94(3) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(3): amended, on , by section 94(2) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(3): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(3)(a): amended, on , by section 94(4) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(4): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(5): amended, on , by section 94(5) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 66(5): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).