Legislation – Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025
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PART 1SOCIAL CARE
CHAPTER 2MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS IN RELATION TO SOCIAL CARE SERVICES, SOCIAL CARE WORKERS AND LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL CARE FUNCTIONS
Social care workers: registration and fitness to practise
19Fitness to practise cases: powers to extend interim orders
(1)
Subsection (2) amends the 2016 Act to give a panel hearing interim order proceedings the power to extend an interim order.
(2)
In section 147 of the 2016 Act—
(a)
“;
(f)
in the case of an interim order that has not been extended by the tribunal under section 148, extend the interim order.”;
(b)
“(2A)
A panel may make a decision specified in subsection (1)(f) only if—
(a)
the panel is satisfied that the decision meets one or more of the conditions referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (2), and
(b)
the extension does not result in the interim order having effect for a period of more than 18 months.”;
(c)
in subsection (3), after “extended” insert “by a panel under subsection (1)(f) or by the tribunal”
;
(d)
“(ia)
an interim order as extended or further extended by a panel;”;
(e)
“(5)
But subsection (4)(a)(i) and (b)(i) do not apply in relation to the reference to an interim order in subsection (1)(f).”