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Electricity Act 1992

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

131: Duty to notify change of name

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“Tell the Registrar if you change your name”

If you have a practising licence, a provisional licence, or an employer licence and you change your name, you need to tell the Registrar your new name. You must do this within one month after you change your name.

The Registrar is the person who keeps a record of all the licensed people. If the Registrar finds out that you’ve changed your name, or if your name is wrong in their records, they will fix it.

It’s important to tell the Registrar about your name change. If you don’t, you’re breaking the law. You could be fined up to $500 if you’re found guilty of not telling the Registrar about your name change.

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

131Duty to notify change of name

  1. If a practising licence holder, a provisional licence holder, or an employer licence holder changes that person's name, that person must, within 1 month after the change, notify the Registrar of the person's new name.

  2. If the Registrar is satisfied that a registered person, a provisional licence holder, or an employer licence holder has changed that person's name, or that it is wrongly entered in the register, the Registrar must correct the entry in the register relating to that person.

  3. Every person who breaches subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500.

Notes
  • Section 131: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
  • Section 131(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).