Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 2) Notice 2022

Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 2) Notice 2022
Secretary for Labour and Welfare
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L.N. 109 of 2022

Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 2) Notice 2022

(Made by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare under section 39(2) of the Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 505))

1. Commencement

This Notice comes into operation on 22 July 2022.

2. Social Workers Registration Ordinance amended

The Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 505) is amended as set out in section

3. Schedule 2 amended (description of offences which disentitle persons from being or continuing to be registered social workers)

Schedule 2—

Add
“5. An offence endangering national security”.
Dr. C. K. LAW
Secretary for Labour and Welfare

16 May 2022

Explanatory Note

Under section 17(4)(b) of the Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 505) (Ordinance), the Social Workers Registration Board established under section 4(1) of the Ordinance is to, unless certain exception applies, refuse to register as a registered social worker a person who has been convicted in Hong Kong of any offence coming within any of the descriptions specified in Schedule 2 to the Ordinance (Schedule 2 offence); or who has been convicted elsewhere of any offence where the act or omission constituting the offence, if the act or omission had occurred in Hong Kong, would constitute a Schedule 2 offence.

2. This Notice amends Schedule 2 to the Ordinance by adding an offence under the description of an offence endangering national security.

This work is a Hong Kong ordinance, which is copyrighted in Hong Kong for 50 years after publication pursuant to section 183(2) and paragraph 36 of Schedule 2 of the Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528). However, as an edict of a government, it is in the public domain in the U.S.


According to Section 3 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1), the term "ordinance" also includes any subsidiary legislation made under any ordinances of Hong Kong that does not contravene with the Hong Kong Basic Law.

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