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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

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

35A: Scope of practice must be endorsed on practising certificates

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"Your social worker certificate must say what jobs you can do."

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When you get a practising certificate to work as a social worker, it must say what you are allowed to do in your job. This is called your scope of practice. The Registrar has to write this information on your certificate. If the Board or Tribunal makes any changes to what you can or cannot do in your job, the Registrar must update your certificate to show these changes. The Registrar is in charge of making sure your certificate is correct and up to date, so you can do your job as a social worker.

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

35AScope of practice must be endorsed on practising certificates

  1. The Registrar must endorse on every practising certificate or interim practising certificate issued to a social worker a description of the social worker’s individual scope of practice (including any conditions to which it is subject).

  2. If changes are made by the Board or Tribunal to the social work services a social worker is permitted to perform or not perform or to conditions in their individual scope of practice, the Registrar must ensure that the changes are endorsed on the social worker’s practising certificate or interim practising certificate.

Notes
  • Section 35A: inserted, on , by section 52 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).