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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Procedure and decisions of Tribunal

78: Social worker may apply for revocation of direction

You could also call this:

"A social worker can ask to cancel a direction made about their work."

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If you are a social worker, you can apply to the Tribunal to cancel a direction made under section 77(1) at any time. You must put your application in writing and give it to the Registrar. The Tribunal must then hear your application within 10 working days of receiving it.

The Tribunal can decide to grant or refuse your application, or it can change the conditions of the direction if they were imposed under section 77(1)(b). The Registrar will let you know the Tribunal's decision as soon as possible.

The Tribunal can also cancel a direction on its own, without you asking it to, under section 77(1). The Tribunal's decision will take effect right away.

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Part 4Discipline
Procedure and decisions of Tribunal

78Social worker may apply for revocation of direction

  1. A social worker may at any time apply to the Tribunal for the revocation of a direction under section 77(1).

  2. The application must be in writing and delivered to the Registrar.

  3. The Tribunal—

  4. must hear the application within 10 working days after it is received by the Registrar; and
    1. the Tribunal may, as it thinks fit,—
      1. grant or refuse the application; or
        1. in the case of conditions imposed under section 77(1)(b), amend or replace the conditions.

        2. The Registrar must promptly give the social worker notice of the Tribunal's decision.

        3. The Tribunal may revoke a direction under section 77(1) of its own motion.

        4. The Tribunal's decision takes effect immediately.

        Notes
        • Section 78(1): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
        • Section 78(3)(b)(ii): amended, on , by section 104 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).