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Electricity Act 1992

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

87: Principles guiding prescribing of registration and licensing matters

You could also call this:

“Rules for becoming an electrical worker: Making sure it's safe and fair”

When deciding on rules for registering and licensing electrical workers, the Board must follow some important guidelines. These guidelines are there to make sure the rules are fair and helpful.

The Board needs to make sure that any rules they create are necessary for keeping people safe, stopping property from being damaged, or making sure electrical workers are good at their jobs. The rules can also include things that are needed to support these main goals.

The Board must be careful not to make rules that would stop people from becoming registered or licensed as electrical workers without a good reason. They also need to make sure the rules don’t cost too much for electrical workers or for you and other members of the public.

These guidelines help the Board balance making sure electrical work is safe and well-done, while also making it possible for people to become electrical workers without facing unnecessary barriers or costs.

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Electrical worker registration and licensing: Classes of registration

87Principles guiding prescribing of registration and licensing matters

  1. In prescribing matters under section 84 or 85, the Board must be guided by the following principles:

  2. the matters must be necessary to—
    1. protect the health or safety of members of the public; or
      1. promote the prevention of damage to property; or
        1. promote the competency of persons who do, or assist in doing, prescribed electrical work; or
          1. carry out, give effect to, or provide for a matter that is incidental to, or consequential on, the matters relating to subparagraph (i), (ii), or (iii); and
          2. the matters may not unnecessarily restrict the registration or licensing of persons as electrical workers; and
            1. the matters may not impose undue costs on electrical workers or on the public.

              Notes
              • Section 87: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).