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Electricity Act 1992

Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences - Electrical worker registration and licensing - Exemptions from registration and practising licence requirements and conditions

107: Board may grant exemptions from registration and practising licence requirements and conditions

You could also call this:

“Board can make special exceptions for people who want to work with electricity”

The Board can let someone off from following the rules for being registered or having a practising licence. They can do this for one person or for a group of people. When they do this, they write it down.

The Board can say you don’t have to meet the usual standards for getting registered or getting a practising licence. They can also say you don’t have to follow some of the rules that are usually set out in section 85.

When the Board lets someone off from following the rules, they can add their own rules that the person has to follow instead.

If the Board lets a whole group of people off from following the rules, they have to tell everyone about it officially. This is called secondary legislation and there are special rules about how they have to share this information.

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Part 10 Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences
Electrical worker registration and licensing: Exemptions from registration and practising licence requirements and conditions

107Board may grant exemptions from registration and practising licence requirements and conditions

  1. The Board may,—

  2. by written notice to a person, exempt the person from compliance with—
    1. the minimum standards for registration that the person must meet in order to be registered as a registered person or issued with a practising licence or to obtain a renewal of a practising licence; and
      1. any terms and conditions imposed by notices published under section 85 that must be complied with by the person; and
      2. by notice, exempt any class of persons from compliance with—
        1. the minimum standards for registration that those persons must meet in order to be registered as registered persons or issued with practising licences or to obtain renewals of practising licences; and
          1. the terms and conditions imposed by notices published under section 85 that must be complied with by those persons.

          2. The Board may grant an exemption subject to any terms and conditions that it thinks fit.

          3. A notice under subsection (1)(b) is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

          Notes
          • Section 107: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
          • Section 107(1)(b): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
          • Section 107(3): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).