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Electricity Act 1992

Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences - Electrical worker registration and licensing - How to become licensed

98: Practising licence required

You could also call this:

“You need a special licence to do electrical work”

You need a practising licence to do or help with certain types of electrical work, even if you are registered. This licence must be current and must allow you to do the specific work you want to do.

There are some exceptions to this rule, which you can find in sections 75 to 80 of the Act.

If you have a practising licence that says you can do or help with certain electrical work, that’s enough to show you’re allowed to do that work.

Remember, your practising licence might have some conditions on it. These conditions, and any rules in the regulations, limit what you can do with your licence.

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Electrical worker registration and licensing: How to become licensed

98Practising licence required

  1. A registered person is not authorised to do, or assist in doing, prescribed electrical work that the person is otherwise authorised to do by virtue of that person's registration unless that person is the holder of a current practising licence issued under this subpart that authorises the person to do, or assist in doing, the work.

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to sections 75 to 80.

  3. Any authority given under a practising licence issued under this subpart to a registered person to do, or assist in doing, any prescribed electrical work is sufficient authority for the person so authorised to do or, as the case may be, assist in doing that work.

  4. Subsection (3) is subject to the terms and conditions imposed under section 103 and to any regulations.

Notes
  • Section 98: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).