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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Register and Registrar - Register of Social Workers

125: Social workers to notify changes to personal information on Register

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"Social workers must tell the Registrar when their personal details change"

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If you are a social worker, this law applies to the information about you on the Register. The information includes things like your name, address, and qualifications. You can find out more about what information is included by looking at section 123(1)(a) to (c).

If any of your information changes, you must tell the Registrar in writing. This includes changes to your name, home or work address, email address, or qualifications.

You must give the Registrar written notice of the change within one month of it happening.

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Part 7Register and Registrar
Register of Social Workers

125Social workers to notify changes to personal information on Register

  1. This section applies to the information described in section 123(1)(a) to (c) that is on the Register relating to a social worker.

  2. If any of that information changes, the social worker must give written notice to the Registrar.

  3. The written notice must be given to the Registrar within 1 month of the change in name, home or work address, electronic address, or particulars of qualifications.

Notes
  • Section 125: replaced, on , by section 125 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).