The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Description of persons to be treated as social care workers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004
These Regulations are made under section 2(3) of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the Act”) and provide that persons who are undertaking a course which has been approved by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council under section 10 of the Act are to be treated as social care workers for the purposes of section 2 of the Act.