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Electricity Act 1992

Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences - Electrical worker registration and licensing - Classes of registration

85: Board may prescribe other registration and licensing matters

You could also call this:

"The Board decides how to become a registered electrical worker and get a licence to work"

The Board can make rules about how to become a registered electrical worker and get a practising licence. They can set the minimum standards you need to meet, like what skills and qualifications you should have. They also decide on the terms and conditions for being registered and getting a licence.

The Board can require you to complete special training programmes to show you're competent. They can also set rules about safe work practices and how to test these practices. If you have qualifications or licences from overseas, the Board might recognise these if they think they're good enough.

When you get a practising licence, there might be conditions attached. For example, you might be allowed to test or certify work, or to supervise others. You might have to follow certain safety rules or complete more training. There could also be limits on what kind of work you're allowed to do.

The Board can make agreements with other countries to recognise each other's electrical qualifications. This means if you're qualified in another country, you might be able to work in New Zealand too.

Before the Board can make these rules, the Minister has to approve them. Once approved, these rules become part of the law.

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Part 10Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences
Electrical worker registration and licensing: Classes of registration

85Board may prescribe other registration and licensing matters

  1. The Board may, by notice,—

  2. prescribe for each class of registration the minimum standards for registration (including standards relating to required competence, qualifications, and experience) that persons must meet in order to be registered as registered persons and to be issued with practising licences; and
    1. prescribe for each class of registration the terms and conditions subject to which persons are registered as registered persons; and
      1. prescribe for each class of registration the terms and conditions subject to which practising licences are issued; and
        1. prescribe requirements relating to the completion of competence programmes in respect of persons who—
          1. apply for practising licences or provisional licences; or
            1. hold practising licences or provisional licences; or
              1. apply for renewals of practising licences or provisional licences; and
              2. prescribe requirements relating to competent and safe work practices and the testing of those practices; and
                1. recognise any overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence as satisfying a particular minimum standard for registration (in whole or in part) if, in the opinion of the Board, that overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence is equivalent to, or as satisfactory as, the standard, or part of the standard, that is treated as being satisfied.

                  1. The terms and conditions referred to in subsection (1)(c) may include, for example,—

                  2. a term that authorises the person to test or certify work or to supervise work:
                    1. a condition that requires compliance with the requirements referred to in subsection (1)(e):
                      1. a condition that requires the person to complete a competence programme:
                        1. a condition that imposes limitations on the circumstances in which the person may do, or assist in doing, work:
                          1. a condition that imposes limits on the work that the person may do, or assist in doing, under the practising licence.

                            1. The Board may make arrangements with the appropriate authorities controlling the registration, licensing, or recognition of electrical workers outside New Zealand for the reciprocal recognition of registration, licences, certificates, or other evidence of proficiency in electrical work.

                            2. The Board may not make a notice under this section unless the Minister approves the proposed notice under section 89.

                            3. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                            Notes
                            • Section 85: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
                            • Section 85(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                            • Section 85(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                            • Section 85(5): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).