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These Regulations made under sections 2 and 57 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the Act”) provide that:
a person who is registered with or is a member of one or more specified regulatory bodies shall be excepted from the meaning of social care worker (regulation 2); and
persons of any of the descriptions in paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection (3) of section 2 of the Act are to be treated as social care workers, except when registered with or members of another specified regulatory body (regulation 3). These include persons engaged in work for the purposes of the personal social services functions of a Health and Social Services Board or HSS trust (or in the provision of services similar to those provided in the exercise of those functions); persons engaged in the provision of personal care for any person; persons who manage, or who are employed in, an undertaking which consists of or includes supplying, or providing services for the purpose of supplying, persons to provide personal care; and persons who are employed in connection with the discharge of functions of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety under Article 149 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (NI 2) (inspection of children’s homes etc.).
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