{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000-relevant-registers-of-social-workers-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/491",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Standards Act 2000 (Relevant Registers of Social Workers) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000-relevant-registers-of-social-workers-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prescription of relevant registers",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 61(2)(b) of the Act, a relevant register is—\n(a) the register maintained by the Scottish Social Services Council, under section 44 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001, in so far as that register relates to social workers; and\n(b) the register maintained by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council under section 3 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, in so far as that register relates to social workers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "asp 8. The Scottish Social Services Council was established by section 43 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (“the 2001 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See: section 77 of the 2001 Act for the definition of “social worker”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2001 c. 3. The Northern Ireland Social Care Council was established by section 1 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the Northern Ireland Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See: section 2(2)(a) and (4) of the Northern Ireland Act for the definition of “social worker”."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/491/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:08:08.291676+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}