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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Scopes of practice for social work profession and prescribed qualifications

5C: Provisions relating to sections 5A and 5B

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"Rules for changing or cancelling some notices about social worker registration"

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The Board can change or cancel a notice under section 5A or 5B at any time. You can find these sections by following the links to section 5A or section 5B. If the Board changes or cancels a notice under section 5B, it does not affect social workers who were already registered.

The Board must talk to certain people before making a new notice under section 5A or 5B. These people include social workers, their employers, and organisations that will be affected by the notice. The Board wants to hear their views on the proposal.

A notice made under this section is called secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. This means the Board must follow certain rules when publishing the notice. You can learn more about these rules by reading the Legislation Act.

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Part 1AScopes of practice for social work profession and prescribed qualifications

5CProvisions relating to sections 5A and 5B

  1. The Board may at any time, by notice, amend, revoke, or replace a notice under section 5A or 5B.

  2. The amendment, revocation, or replacement of a notice under section 5B does not affect the registration of a social worker who qualified to practise under the notice before it was amended, revoked, or replaced.

  3. Before the Board makes a notice under section 5A or 5B or under this section, it must have consulted the following about its proposal for the contents of the notice:

  4. persons who the Board considers are able to represent the views of social workers or of classes of social workers; and
    1. persons who the Board considers are able to represent the views of employers of social workers; and
      1. organisations—
        1. that the Board considers will be affected by the proposal; or
          1. whose members the Board considers will be affected by the proposal.

          2. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

          3. Repealed
          Notes
          • Section 5C: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
          • Section 5C(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
          • Section 5C(3): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
          • Section 5C(4): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
          • Section 5C(5): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).