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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Procedure and decisions of Tribunal

84: Orders as to restoration of registration

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"Getting your social worker registration back after it's been cancelled"

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When the Tribunal cancels a social worker's registration, they can do one or two things. They can set a date before which you cannot apply for registration again. They can also set conditions that you must meet before you can apply for registration again. The conditions might include taking a course to learn something new, having a medical check-up, or getting help for alcohol or drug problems. The Tribunal must get your consent before they can make you have a medical check-up or get help for alcohol or drug problems. If the Tribunal sets a date before which you cannot apply for registration again, you cannot apply until after that date.

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Part 4Discipline
Procedure and decisions of Tribunal

84Orders as to restoration of registration

  1. When making an order that the registration of a social worker be cancelled, the Tribunal may do either or both of the following things:

  2. fix a date before which they may not apply for registration again:
    1. impose 1 or more conditions that they must satisfy before they may apply for registration again.

      1. The conditions may include any or all of the following:

      2. a condition that the person undertake a specified course of education or training:
        1. a condition that the person undergo—
          1. any specified medical examination and treatment; or
            1. any specified psychological or psychiatric examination, counselling, or therapy:
            2. a condition that the person attend any specified course of treatment or therapy for alcohol or drug abuse:
              1. any other condition designed to address the matter that gave rise to the cancellation of the person's registration.

                1. The Tribunal must not impose a condition under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (2) unless the person consents to the examination, treatment, counselling, or therapy concerned.

                2. If the Tribunal fixes a date before which the person may not apply for registration again, no application for registration from the person may be received or considered before that date.

                3. Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1)(b).

                Notes
                • Section 84(1): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
                • Section 84(1)(a): amended, on , by section 23 of the Social Workers Registration Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 17).
                • Section 84(1)(b): amended, on , by section 23 of the Social Workers Registration Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 17).
                • Section 84(4): amended, on , by section 23 of the Social Workers Registration Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 17).