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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

72: Procedure after committee makes determination (other than to take no further action)

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"What happens after a committee makes a decision about a social worker?"

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If a professional conduct committee makes a decision, they must tell you what it is and why they made it. They have to write to the Registrar, the social worker, and the person who made the complaint, if there is one. The committee might decide that the social worker's competence or fitness to practise should be reviewed, or they might decide to send a complaint to conciliation, as stated in section 71(1)(b)(ii) to (v). When the Registrar gets the notice, they must show it to the Board straight away.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

72Procedure after committee makes determination (other than to take no further action)

  1. This subsection applies to a determination by a professional conduct committee that—

  2. the Board should review the competence or fitness of a social worker to practise as a social worker; or
    1. the committee should submit a complaint to conciliation.

      1. If it makes a determination to which subsection (1) applies, a professional conduct committee must give written notice of the determination, and the reasons for it, to—

      2. the Registrar; and
        1. the social worker; and
          1. in the case of a complaint, the complainant.

            1. If it makes a determination under section 71(1)(b)(ii) to (v), a professional conduct committee must give written notice of the determination, and the reasons for it, to—

            2. the Registrar; and
              1. the social worker.

                1. If it makes a determination to submit a complaint or conviction to the Tribunal, a professional conduct committee must—

                2. frame an appropriate charge; and
                  1. lay it before the Tribunal; and
                    1. give written notice of it to the social worker and, in the case of a complaint, to the complainant.

                      1. On receiving notice under subsection (2)(a) or (2A), the Registrar must promptly put the notice before the Board.

                      Notes
                      • Section 72 heading: replaced, on , by section 98(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                      • Section 72(1): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                      • Section 72(1)(a): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                      • Section 72(2): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                      • Section 72(2A): inserted, on , by section 98(2) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                      • Section 72(3): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                      • Section 72(4): amended, on , by section 98(3) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).