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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

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

8F: Decisions of Board on registration

You could also call this:

"The Board decides who can be a social worker and what rules they must follow."

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When you apply to be a social worker, the Board makes a decision about your registration. If the Board says you can be registered because you meet the criteria in section 6, section 7, section 14, or section 15, you will be registered. The Registrar will add your details to the Register.

The Registrar will tell you that you are registered, what you are allowed to do as a social worker, and why there may be any conditions on your registration. If your registration is provisional or temporary, the Registrar will tell you this, how long it will last, and why the Board made this decision.

If the Board decides you should not be registered, the Registrar will tell you this and explain why. You will get this information promptly, so you know what is happening with your application.

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

8FDecisions of Board on registration

  1. If the Board authorises an individual scope of practice for an applicant who meets the criteria in section 6, 7, 14, or 15 (as relevant), the applicant is entitled to be registered as a social worker, and the Registrar must promptly register the applicant by entering in the Register the information about the applicant required under section 123.

  2. The Registrar must promptly notify an applicant who has been registered of the fact of their registration, the contents of the authorisation by the Board (and any applicable general conditions) that form their individual scope of practice, and the reasons for any condition that has been included.

  3. If the Board decides that an applicant’s registration is to be provisional or temporary, the Registrar must also notify them of—

  4. the fact that it is provisional or temporary; and
    1. the duration of the registration; and
      1. the Board’s reasons.

        1. If the Board, after considering an application for registration, decides that the applicant should not be registered, the Registrar must promptly notify the applicant of the decision and the reasons for it.

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