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SOCIAL WORKERS REGISTRATION ACT 2021 - SECT 24

24—Requirement to be registered

        (1)         A person must not, on or after the prescribed day, undertake social work services unless—

            (a)         the person is registered as a social worker under this Act; and

            (b)         the services undertaken by the person are within the terms of their individual scope of practice (authorised under section 29).

Maximum penalty: $5 000.

        (2)         A person must not engage another person to undertake social work services unless the other person is registered as a social worker under this Act.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (3)         In this section—

"prescribed day" means—

            (a)         the day falling 6 months after the day on which this section comes into operation; or

            (b)         if a later day is prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this definition—that day.



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