The Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2005

Made: 22 February 2005

The Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 118(5) and (6) and 122 of the Care Standards Act 2000[^f00001], hereby make the following Order:—

Citation and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2005.

• (2) In this Order “the Act” means the Care Standards Act 2000.

Appointed Days

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• (1) 1 March 2005 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 61(2)(b) of the Act for the purpose only of the exercise of the power to make regulations in so far as it is not already in force for that purpose[^f00002].

• (2) 1 April 2005 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 61 of the Act for all purposes in so far as it is not already in force.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

S. J. Ladyman — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — 22 February 2005

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00003]

D. Elis-Thomas — The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — 22 February 2005

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, in relation to England and Wales—

• on 1 March 2005, section 61(2)(b), in so far as it is not already in force, for the purpose of making regulations which will prescribe the registers of social workers maintained in Scotland and Northern Ireland which correspond to the registers maintained by the General Social Care Council and the Care Council for Wales.

• on 1 April 2005, in so far as it is not already in force, section 61 of the Care Standards Act 2000 which provides for the protection of the title “social worker” by the creation of an offence, punishable by a fine of up to level 5 on the standard scale, for a person who is not registered as a social worker to use that title or hold himself out as a registered social worker with an intention to deceive. An individual will not be guilty of an offence if they are registered with an equivalent regulatory body in another part of the UK.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c. 14. The powers are exercisable by the appropriate Minister, who is defined in section 121(1), in relation to England and Wales, as the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales acting jointly.

[^f00002]: The regulation making power in section 61(2)(b) has already been commenced in relation to Wales, see: S.I. 2002/1175 (W.123) (C. 31).

[^f00003]: 1998 c. 38.