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Electricity Act 1992

Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences - Register of electrical workers

129: Historical registration and licence information and documentation to be included in register

You could also call this:

“Old electrical worker records are saved but don't give work rights”

You should know about a rule for keeping old information in the register for electrical workers. This rule is about information that was in the old registers before the new rules started.

All the old information and documents from the old registers must be kept as part of the new register. This means the information doesn’t go away, it just becomes part of the new system.

But it’s important to understand that just because this old information is in the new register, it doesn’t give anyone any special rights or allow them to do anything. Specifically, having your information in this part of the register doesn’t mean you can do electrical work or help with electrical work.

This rule helps keep a record of past information without changing what people are allowed to do now.

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Part 10 Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences
Register of electrical workers

129Historical registration and licence information and documentation to be included in register

  1. This section applies to all of the information and documentation contained in the registers that were kept under section 87 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this section).

  2. The information and documentation that this section applies to must be maintained as part of the register.

  3. The inclusion of that information and documentation as part of the register—

  4. does not confer any rights or privileges on any person; and
    1. does not authorise any person to do prescribed electrical work or to assist in doing prescribed electrical work.

      Notes
      • Section 129: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).