Electricity Act 1992

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

109: Unsatisfactory results of competence programme

You could also call this:

“What happens if you don't pass a test for your electrician licence”

If you don’t pass a competence programme that you need to complete, the Board can do a few things. They might put conditions on your practising licence or provisional licence. They could also suspend your licence or refuse to renew it.

Before the Board suspends your licence, they have to tell you why they’re thinking about doing it. They also have to give you a chance to explain your side of the story in writing or in person.

The Board will make sure you get a copy of their decision. The decision starts working either when you get the copy or on a date they specify, whichever is later.

If the Board puts conditions on your licence or suspends it, this will last until you finish all the parts of the competence programme. The Board can give you more time to do this if needed.

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

109Unsatisfactory results of competence programme

  1. If any person who is required to complete a competence programme does not satisfy the requirements of the programme, the Board may make 1 or more of the following orders:

  2. that the person's practising licence or provisional licence be subject to any condition that the Board considers appropriate:
    1. that the person's practising licence or provisional licence be suspended:
      1. that the person's application for a renewal of a practising licence or provisional licence be declined.
        1. The Board may not suspend a licence under subsection (1) unless it has first—

        2. informed the person concerned why it may suspend the licence of that person; and
          1. given that person a reasonable opportunity to make written submissions and be heard on the question, either personally or by his or her representative.
            1. The Registrar must ensure that a copy of the order made under subsection (1) is given to the person concerned.

            2. An order made under subsection (1) takes effect from the day on which a copy of the order is given to the person concerned or from any date that is specified in the order, whichever is the later.

            3. Any order made under subsection (1)(a) or (b) remains in effect until the time that the person concerned has satisfied all the requirements of the competence programme, and for that purpose the Board may extend the period within which the person is required to satisfy those requirements.

            Notes
            • Section 109: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).