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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

74: Committee may recommend suspension of registration or practising certificate or imposition of conditions

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"A committee can suggest stopping a social worker's licence or limiting their work."

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If you are a social worker, a professional conduct committee can lay a charge against you. The committee can recommend to the Tribunal that your registration or practising certificate be suspended under section 77 while the charge is being decided. The committee can also recommend that conditions be imposed on your individual scope of practice under section 77. This means the committee can suggest limits on the work you can do as a social worker.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

74Committee may recommend suspension of registration or practising certificate or imposition of conditions

  1. A professional conduct committee that lays a charge before the Tribunal may recommend to the Tribunal that, pending the determination of the charge,—

  2. the registration or practising certificate of the social worker concerned be suspended under section 77; or
    1. conditions be imposed on the social worker’s individual scope of practice under section 77.

      Notes
      • Section 74 heading: amended, on , by section 101(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
      • Section 74: amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
      • Section 74(a): amended, on , by section 101(2) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
      • Section 74(b): amended, on , by section 102 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
      • Section 74(b): amended, on , by section 101(3) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).