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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Competence and fitness - Setting conditions on revocation of suspension of registration or practising certificate

58A: Conditions on revocation of suspension of registration or practising certificate

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"Rules for lifting a social worker's suspension"

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If your registration or practising certificate as a social worker has been suspended, this section applies to you. The suspension might have happened under section 45(1)(b)(ii), 49(2)(b), 57(2)(b)(ii), 57A, or 133(6)(b)(i). The Board can set conditions you must meet before they will consider lifting the suspension.

The Board may require you to do certain things, such as take a specific course or get medical treatment. They can also ask you to undergo a psychological examination or get therapy for alcohol or drug abuse. The Board can set any other conditions that will help fix the issue that led to your suspension.

The Board cannot make you have a medical examination or treatment without your consent. The conditions the Board sets are in addition to any other requirements they may have.

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Part 3Competence and fitness
Setting conditions on revocation of suspension of registration or practising certificate

58AConditions on revocation of suspension of registration or practising certificate

  1. This section applies if a social worker’s registration or practising certificate has been suspended under section 45(1)(b)(ii), 49(2)(b), 57(2)(b)(ii), 57A, or 133(6)(b)(i).

  2. The Board may set conditions that must be satisfied by the social worker before the Board will consider revoking the suspension.

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

  4. 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 suspension of the person’s registration or practising certificate.

            1. The Board must not impose a condition under subsection (3)(b) or (c) unless the person consents to the examination, treatment, counselling, or therapy concerned.

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

            Notes
            • Section 58A: inserted, on , by section 87 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).