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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

100: Applications for practising licence

You could also call this:

“How to apply for a licence to work as an electrician”

If you want to get a practising licence, you need to follow these steps:

You need to send your application to the right person. You can send it to the Registrar, or to the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board if they need to look at it under section 114.

Your application needs to be in the right form. If there’s a special form you have to use, use that one. If not, use the form that the Board asks for.

You need to give all the information and papers that the Board wants. Make sure you include everything they ask for.

You might need to pay a fee with your application. If there is a fee, you need to pay it when you send in your application.

If you send your application to the Registrar, they will pass it on to the Board. The Board will then look at your application under section 101.

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100Applications for practising licence

  1. An application for a practising licence under this subpart must—

  2. be sent or delivered to either—
    1. the Registrar; or
      1. the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board if the application is to be considered by that Board under section 114; and
      2. be in the prescribed form or, if there is no prescribed form, in the form required by the Board; and
        1. contain, or be accompanied by, the information and documentation required by the Board; and
          1. be accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any).

            1. The Registrar must refer any application received by the Registrar under this section to the Board for consideration under section 101.

            Notes
            • Section 100: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).