Schedules Schedule 1: Schedule to be inserted as Schedule AA1 to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Part 4: Approved Mental Capacity Professionals
Paragraph 39 requires each local authority to make arrangements for the approval of persons to act as Approved Mental Capacity Professionals. Each local authority is also required to make arrangements to ensure that there are sufficient numbers of persons approved as Approved Mental Capacity Professionals for its area.
	Paragraph 40 enables the Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers to prescribe in regulations the criteria for approval as an Approved Mental Capacity Professional, matters which a local authority must or may take into account when deciding whether or not to approve a person as an Approved Mental Capacity Professional, and provide for a prescribed body to approve training for Approved Mental Capacity Professionals. Sub-paragraph (2) provides that the regulations may include criteria relating to qualifications, training or experience.
	Sub-paragraph (3) provides that if the regulations made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 40(1) provide for Social Work England to approve the training for Approved Mental Capacity Professionals, then the regulations may grant Social Work England the power to charge fees for approval.