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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Discipline - Professional conduct committees

68A: Power to call for information or things

You could also call this:

"The committee can ask for information or things in writing if they really need it to do their job."

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If you are part of a professional conduct committee, you can ask someone for information or things in writing. You can do this if you think it is necessary to do your job and you have already asked them for it. You must believe it is not easy to get the information from somewhere else, or you need it to check something. You can tell the person when you need the information by, which must be at least 10 working days after you ask them. The committee can only ask for this information if they think it is necessary to do their job and they have already asked for it.

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Part 4Discipline
Professional conduct committees

68APower to call for information or things

  1. If the requirements in subsection (2) are met, a professional conduct committee may, by notice in writing, require any person to produce to the committee any paper, document, record, or thing.

  2. The requirements are that—

  3. the members of the committee believe on reasonable grounds that the exercise of the power is necessary to enable the committee to carry out its functions; and
    1. the person has failed to comply with a previous request to produce to the committee, within a reasonable time, the paper, document, record, or thing; and
      1. the members of the committee believe on reasonable grounds that—
        1. it is not reasonably practicable to obtain the information from another source; or
          1. for the purposes of performing its functions, it is necessary to obtain the paper, document, record, or thing to verify or refute information obtained from another source.

          2. The production notice may specify a date by which the paper, document, record, or thing must be produced to the committee, which must not be less than 10 working days after the notice is given to the person.

          Notes
          • Section 68A: inserted, on , by section 95 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).