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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Procedure and decisions of Tribunal

86: Funding

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"The Board pays for costs and can use special orders or a disciplinary levy to get its money back."

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The Board has to pay for the Tribunal's costs, including all the costs of professional conduct committees and hearings. You will see that the Board can use money it gets from certain orders to pay itself back for these costs, such as orders made under section 83(1). The Board can also impose a levy, called the disciplinary levy, under section 109 to help fund these costs.

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Part 4Discipline
Procedure and decisions of Tribunal

86Funding

  1. The Board—

  2. must pay—
    1. all the costs of the Tribunal; and
      1. all the costs of every professional conduct committee; and
        1. all costs of and incidental to any hearing before the Tribunal; but
        2. may use any money paid to it under an order under section 83(1) to reimburse itself for its payments.

          1. To fund the costs referred to in subsection (1)(a) (less any payments made to it), the Board may impose a levy, to be called the disciplinary levy, under section 109.

          Notes
          • Section 86(1)(a)(ii): amended, on , by section 144(1) of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).