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Electricity Act 1992

Miscellaneous provisions - General electricity matters - Offences

161: Unlicensed or unregistered person must not claim to be licensed or registered

You could also call this:

“Don't pretend to be licensed or registered for electrical work if you're not”

You must not pretend to be registered or licensed for electrical work if you’re not. This is against the law and you could be fined up to $10,000 if you do any of these things:

If you’re not registered or licensed for a certain type of electrical work, you can’t:

  • Do anything that might make people think you are
  • Use words, titles, or letters that suggest you are
  • Say that you are in any way

You also can’t:

  • Try to trick people by saying someone else is registered or licensed when they’re not
  • Use your own or someone else’s registration certificate or licence to trick people
  • Let someone else use your registration certificate or licence to do electrical work they’re not allowed to do

Remember, it’s important to be honest about your qualifications and not mislead others about your ability to do electrical work.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions
General electricity matters: Offences

161Unlicensed or unregistered person must not claim to be licensed or registered

  1. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 who,—

  2. not being registered or licensed under Part 10 in respect of a particular class of prescribed electrical work,—
    1. does any act that is intended to cause or may reasonably cause any other person to believe that the person is so registered or licensed; or
      1. uses, or causes or permits to be used, in connection with any business, trade, or calling any written words, titles, or initials, or any abbreviation of any words, titles, or initials, that are intended to cause or may reasonably cause any other person to believe that the person using them is so registered or licensed; or
        1. in any way holds himself or herself or itself out as being so registered or licensed; or
        2. knowing that some other person is not registered or licensed under Part 10 in respect of a particular class of prescribed electrical work, and with intent to deceive, makes any statement or does any act calculated to suggest that the other person is so registered or licensed; or
          1. with intent to deceive, makes use of any certificate of registration or licence issued to that person or any other person under Part 10; or
            1. allows a certificate of registration or a licence to be used by any other person for the purpose of enabling that other person to do any prescribed electrical work in breach of Part 9.

              Notes
              • Section 161: substituted, on , by section 22 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
              • Section 161: amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).