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Electricity Act 1992

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

108: Competence programmes

You could also call this:

“Rules for special training programs to check or improve electrical workers' skills”

The Board can create or recognise special programs to check or improve the skills of people who do electrical work or help with it. These programs can apply to anyone who wants a licence to do electrical work, already has one, or wants to renew their licence.

The Board can make these programs for all electrical workers, just one person, or a specific group of people. However, the Board can only make you complete a program if:

  1. Your registration or licence says you have to.
  2. It’s part of the basic requirements for your registration.
  3. The Board has published a notice saying you need to do it.
  4. You’ve been told to do it because of disciplinary action.

These programs might ask you to do things like:

  1. Pass a test
  2. Do some practical training
  3. Get some hands-on experience
  4. Take some classes
  5. Do anything else the Board thinks is important

The Board will tell you how long you have to finish the program. They can also decide to excuse some people from doing parts of the program or the whole thing.

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Part 10 Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences
Electrical worker registration and licensing: Competence

108Competence programmes

  1. For the purpose of examining or improving the competence of persons who do, or assist in doing, prescribed electrical work, the Board may set or recognise competence programmes in respect of persons who—

  2. apply for practising licences or provisional licences; or
    1. hold practising licences or provisional licences; or
      1. apply for renewals of practising licences or provisional licences.

        1. Any competence programme may be made to apply generally in respect of all of those persons, or in respect of a specified person, or in respect of any specified class of those persons.

        2. However, a registered person may be required by the Board to complete a competence programme only if 1 or more of the following applies:

        3. the registration of the person or the practising licence held by the person is subject to a condition imposed by a notice published under section 85 that requires the person to complete a competence programme; or
          1. the person is required to complete a competence programme in accordance with an applicable minimum standard for registration; or
            1. the person is required to complete a competence programme in accordance with a requirement imposed by a notice published under section 85(1)(d); or
              1. the person is required to complete a competence programme under Part 11 (which relates to discipline).

                1. Any competence programme may require a person to do 1 or more of the following, within the period, or at the intervals, prescribed in the programme:

                2. pass an examination:
                  1. complete a period of practical training:
                    1. complete a period of practical experience:
                      1. undertake a course of studies:
                        1. anything else that the Board considers appropriate.

                          1. The Board may specify a period within which the person to whom a competence programme applies must comply with the requirements of the programme.

                          2. The Board may exempt any person or class of persons from all or any of the requirements of a competence programme.

                          Notes
                          • Section 108: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).