The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2007

Substitution of section 64

238.  In section 64(1) (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).

(1)

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