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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

68: Committees may appoint legal advisers

You could also call this:

"Committees can get help from a law expert when they need it"

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A professional conduct committee can appoint a legal adviser to help them. You can think of a legal adviser as a person who knows a lot about the law and can give advice. The legal adviser can be at committee meetings and give advice on law, procedure, or evidence at any time.

The legal adviser has some limits on what they can do. They cannot be in the room when the committee is making decisions.

The committee can get help from the legal adviser, but the adviser cannot be part of the decision-making process.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

68Committees may appoint legal advisers

  1. A professional conduct committee may appoint a legal adviser, who—

  2. may be present at meetings of the committee; and
    1. may at any time advise the committee on matters of law, procedure, or evidence; but
      1. must not be present during the deliberations of the committee.

        Notes
        • Section 68: amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).