Social Workers Registration Act 2003

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

8H: Board may adopt general conditions

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"The Board can set rules for what social workers are allowed to do."

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The Board can decide to adopt conditions that apply to what social workers can do, which is called their scope of practice, as described in section 8A. You can think of a scope of practice like a list of tasks a social worker is allowed to do. The Board can choose which conditions to adopt, and they can apply to all social workers or just some of them. The conditions the Board adopts can include things like who supervises the social worker. The Board's conditions are a type of law called secondary legislation, which has its own rules for publication, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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

8HBoard may adopt general conditions

  1. The Board may, as it thinks fit, adopt any conditions to apply to the individual scopes of practice (see section 8A) of all social workers or all social workers of a particular description.

  2. The conditions may include a condition relating to supervision.

  3. Conditions under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes
  • Section 8H: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).
  • Section 8H(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).