The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007 No. 3101

PART 18 U.K. SOCIAL WORKERS: CARE STANDARDS ACT 2000

Substitution of section 64 U.K.

238.  In section 64 M1 (qualifications gained outside a Council's area)—

(a) before subsection (1) insert—

“(A1) An applicant for registration in the principal part of the register maintained by a Council satisfies the requirements of this section if the applicant is an exempt person who by virtue of Part 3 of the General Systems Regulations is permitted to pursue the profession of social worker in the United Kingdom (having, in particular, successfully completed any adaptation period, or passed any aptitude test, that the applicant may be required to undertake pursuant to that Part of those Regulations).”;

(b) in each of subsections (1) and (2)—

(i) for “as a social worker in” substitute “ in the principal part of ”, and

(ii) omit paragraph (a); and

(c) omit subsections (3) to (5).

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 64 was amended by S.I. 2004/1947.