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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

70: Social workers and complainants may request changes in membership of professional conduct committee

You could also call this:

"Ask for a change to the committee deciding your case"

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If you are a social worker or someone who has made a complaint, you can ask for changes to the people on the professional conduct committee. You have 10 working days to do this after you find out who is on the committee. You need to tell the Board why you want to make these changes. The Board will think about your request and might change the people on the committee. You can make this request if there is a complaint about you, or if you have been convicted of something, and you are a social worker.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

70Social workers and complainants may request changes in membership of professional conduct committee

  1. Within 10 working days after being informed of the intended membership of the professional conduct committee that is to consider a complaint about, or conviction of, a social worker, the social worker or, in the case of a complaint, the complainant may give the Board notice—

  2. requesting that any or all of the intended members not be appointed as members of that committee; and
    1. stating the reasons for the request.

      1. The Board—

      2. must consider the request; and
        1. may reconstitute the committee.

          Notes
          • Section 70 heading: amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 70(1): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 70(2): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).