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Electricity Act 1992

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

137: Restricting public access to information and documents on register

You could also call this:

“Keeping some information about electrical workers private”

The Registrar can limit what information about electrical workers and employer licences is available to the public. If you ask the Registrar to keep some of your information private, they can do that. This includes things like your contact details or qualifications.

The Registrar must keep certain information private if the rules say so or if the Board tells them to. This might include things like complaints about you or disciplinary actions.

The Board can tell the Registrar to keep information private if they think it’s not needed or not a good idea for everyone to see it.

Remember, these rules are about protecting your privacy while still keeping important information available to the public.

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

137Restricting public access to information and documents on register

  1. Despite section 136, the Registrar—

  2. may restrict public access to all or any of the information referred to in section 128(1)(b), (2)(b), or (2)(e)(i) in relation to a particular person if that person requires the Registrar to restrict public access to that information; and
    1. must restrict public access to any information or documentation referred to in section 128(1)(c)(viii), (2)(c)(vi), (3), or (4) or section 129 if—
      1. required to do so by regulations made under section 169; or
        1. directed to do so by the Board.

        2. For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the Board may direct the Registrar to restrict public access to any information or documents referred to in that paragraph if, in the opinion of the Board, it is not necessary, or it is not desirable, for the information or documents to be publicly available.

        Notes
        • Section 137: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).