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Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 2) Notice 2022 Explanatory Note Paragraph 1 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.