The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017

Transfer of the CCW register

3.—(1) Each person who immediately before the 3 April 2017 is registered on a part of the CCW register(1) specified in sub-paragraph (2) is, on or after that day, registered in the corresponding part of the SCW register(2).

(2) The parts of the register referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a) the principal part;

(b) the added part;

(c) the visiting European part.

(3) But sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where a person is—

(a) registered in the added part of the CCW register, and

(b) falls within either of the following descriptions—

(i) an adult care home worker, or

(ii) a domiciliary care worker.

(4) A person whose name appears in the principal part, the added part, or the visiting European part of the CCW register, and whose registration has been suspended, counts for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) as being registered in that part of the register, but paragraph 6 makes further provision about such persons.

(5) References in the Act to an entry in the register having been included on the basis of false or misleading information are to be treated on or after 3 April 2017 as including former entries in the CCW register relating to transferred persons.

(6) A person who becomes registered in the SCW register by virtue of this paragraph is referred in this Schedule as a “transferred person”.

(1)

See section 56(2A) of the 2000 Act.

(2)

See section 80(3) of the Act; these are the “social worker part”, the “added part” and the “visiting European part”.