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Electricity Act 1992

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

132: Revision of register

You could also call this:

“Checking and updating the list of people with electrical licenses”

The Registrar can check if someone with a registration, practising licence, provisional licence, or employer licence wants to cancel it. They do this by sending a letter to the person’s last known address.

If you tell the Registrar in writing that you want to cancel your registration or licence, the Board can decide to cancel it.

If the Registrar doesn’t get a reply within 3 months, or if the letter comes back undelivered, they’ll send another notice. This notice will say that your registration or licence might be cancelled if you don’t respond within 20 working days.

If you don’t reply to this notice, the Board can decide to cancel your registration, practising licence, or both if you’re a registered person. For provisional licence holders or employer licence holders, the Board can cancel your licence.

The Registrar has to do this check if the Board tells them to, but they can also do it anytime they want.

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

132Revision of register

  1. The Registrar may at any time, and must if the Board directs, ask whether—

  2. a registered person wishes to have that person's registration or practising licence cancelled; or
    1. a provisional licence holder or an employer licence holder wishes to have that person's licence cancelled.

      1. The Registrar must ask by letter addressed to the registered person, provisional licence holder, or employer licence holder at that person's last known street address.

      2. If the registered person tells the Registrar in writing that the person wishes to have the person's registration or practising licence cancelled, the Board may order that the registration or practising licence be cancelled.

      3. If the provisional licence holder or employer licence holder tells the Registrar in writing that the person wishes to have the person's licence cancelled, the Board may order that the licence be cancelled.

      4. If the Registrar does not receive a reply to the letter within 3 months after it was posted, or if the letter is returned to the Registrar undelivered, the Registrar may give the registered person or provisional licence holder or employer licence holder notice in writing at that person's last known street address that the registration or practising licence (or both) of the registered person, or the licence of the provisional licence holder or employer licence holder, may be cancelled if that person does not respond within 20 working days after the date of the notice.

      5. If the Registrar does not receive a reply within 20 working days after the date of the notice, the Board may order that—

      6. the registered person's registration or practising licence (or both) be cancelled; or
        1. the licence of the provisional licence holder or employer licence holder be cancelled.

          Notes
          • Section 132: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).