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Part IVU.K. Social care workers

RegistrationE+W

[F158AVisiting social workers from relevant European StatesE+W

(1)This section applies to an exempt person (“V”) who is lawfully established as a social worker in a relevant European State other than the United Kingdom.

(2)Subsection (3) applies if V has the benefit of regulation [F212] of the General Systems Regulations in connection with the provision by V of services as a social worker in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis (V having complied with any requirements imposed under Part 2 of those Regulations in connection with the provision by V of services as a social worker).

(3)V is entitled to be registered in the visiting [F3European social worker part] of the register maintained by [F4the Welsh Council] ; and the Council shall give effect to the entitlement.

(4)If V is entitled under subsection (3) to be registered in the visiting [F3European social worker part] of a register but is not registered in that part, V shall be treated as being registered in that part.

(5)V's entitlement under subsection (3) ceases if V ceases, whether as a result of the operation of regulation [F524] of the General Systems Regulations or otherwise, to have the benefit of regulation [F612] of those Regulations in connection with the provision by V of services as a social worker in the United Kingdom on a temporary and occasional basis.

(6)If—

(a)V's entitlement under subsection (3) ceases by reason of the operation of subsection (5), and

(b)V is registered in the visiting [F3European social worker part] of the register maintained by [F7the Welsh Council, the ]

Council may remove V from that part.

(7)Subsections (1) to (6) are not to be taken to prejudice the application, in relation to persons registered in the visiting [F3European social worker part] of the register maintained by [F8the Welsh Council] , of rules under section 59.]

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