{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2001/3",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-act-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Registration – enforcement",
  "text": "(1) If a person who is not registered in the register as a social worker ..., with intent to deceive another—\n(a) takes or uses the title of social worker;\n(b) takes or uses any title or description implying that he is so registered , or in any way holds himself out as so registered,\nhe is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) The Department may by regulations make provision for prohibiting persons from working in such positions as may be prescribed unless they are registered in, or in a particular part of, the register .\n(4) Regulations under subsection (3) may provide that a contravention of any specified provision of the regulations shall be an offence.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under such regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1) substituted (13.5.2016) by Health and Personal Social Services (Amendment) Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 23), ss. 3(2), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 8(a) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 10 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 18); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/593), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 8(b) (with reg. 12A, Sch. 10 Pt. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1394, regs. 4, 18); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(3) substituted (13.5.2016) by Health and Personal Social Services (Amendment) Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 23), ss. 3(3), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 8(6) omitted (13.5.2016) by virtue of Health and Personal Social Services (Amendment) Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 23), ss. 3(4), 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/3/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:53.445230+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."
}