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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Registration, authorisation to practise within scope of practice, and practising certificates - Applications

8A: Board may authorise individual scope of practice for applicant or change to individual scope of practice for social worker

You could also call this:

"The Board decides what social workers are allowed to do and can change their work permissions."

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The Board looks at applications from the Registrar quickly. You can apply to be allowed to work as a social worker in a specific area. The Board decides what you are allowed to do as a social worker.

The Board can change what a social worker is allowed to do. This is called changing their individual scope of practice. You can find out more about this in section 8B.

If you apply to be a social worker or to change what you are allowed to do, you might have the chance to write to the Board and talk to them. This happens if you are allowed to under section 8E(4). The Board will not make a decision until you have had this chance.

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Part 2Registration, authorisation to practise within scope of practice, and practising certificates
Applications

8ABoard may authorise individual scope of practice for applicant or change to individual scope of practice for social worker

  1. The Board must promptly consider applications received from the Registrar.

  2. The Board may authorise an applicant to practise within a scope of practice of the social work profession.

  3. The contents of an authorisation (together with any applicable general conditions) form the applicant's individual scope of practice (see section 8B).

  4. The Board may authorise a change to the existing individual scope of practice of a social worker.

  5. If an applicant (including a social worker applying for a change in their individual scope of practice) is, under section 8E(4), entitled to an opportunity to make written submissions and be heard, an authorisation under this section may be determined only after the applicant has had that opportunity.

Notes
  • Section 8A: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).