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Electricity Act 1992

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

86: Minimum standards for registration

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“Rules for becoming a registered electrician”

The Board can set minimum standards for registration in different ways. These can include:

You might need to have a specific degree, diploma, or certificate that the Board recognises.

You may have to complete a course or program that the Board approves.

You might need to pass a test or assessment that the Board sets up or approves.

The Board might look at whether you’re registered or licensed with an overseas organisation that does similar work.

You may need to have experience in providing certain kinds of services.

The Board might require you to have a certain level of skill or ability.

If you don’t have a degree, diploma, or certificate that the Board recognises, they might ask you to pass a specific exam or assessment. But they can only do this if you don’t already have one of those recognised qualifications.

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Electrical worker registration and licensing: Classes of registration

86Minimum standards for registration

  1. A notice under section 85 may prescribe minimum standards for registration in any way the Board thinks fit, including in 1 or more of the following ways:

  2. by requiring a degree or diploma or certificate of a stated kind recognised by the Board:
    1. by requiring the successful completion of a competence programme, degree, or course of studies accredited by the Board:
      1. by requiring a pass in a specified examination or any other assessment set by the Board or by another organisation approved by the Board:
        1. by reference to registration with, or a licence issued by, an overseas organisation that performs functions that correspond wholly or partly to those performed by the Board:
          1. by requiring experience in the provision of services of a particular kind:
            1. by requiring a certain level of competence.

              1. However, the minimum standards for registration prescribed under section 85 may require a person to pass a specified examination or other assessment set by the Board only if the Board is satisfied that the person does not have a degree, diploma, or certificate of a stated kind recognised by the Board under subsection (1)(a).

              Notes
              • Section 86: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).