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Electricity Act 1992

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

110: Cancellation and suspension generally

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“The Board can cancel or pause your work permission for different reasons”

The Board can cancel your registration, practising licence, or provisional licence if you ask them to, or if they think you have died. They can also cancel it if you got it wrongly, if there’s a problem with your overseas qualifications, if they’re updating the register, or if there’s been a disciplinary issue.

If your registration is cancelled, your practising licence for that type of registration is also cancelled.

The Board can suspend your registration if there’s a problem with your overseas qualifications or because of disciplinary action. They can suspend your practising licence or provisional licence if there are concerns about your competence, issues with overseas qualifications, or for disciplinary reasons.

Even if your registration, practising licence, or provisional licence is cancelled or suspended, you’re still responsible for anything you did before that happened.

If you’re registered for more than one type of work, the Board can cancel or suspend your registration or practising licence for all types of work or just some of them.

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

110Cancellation and suspension generally

  1. The Board may cancel a person's registration, practising licence, or provisional licence—

  2. if the person, by written notice, requests that the Board do so; or
    1. if the Board believes on reasonable grounds that the person has died; or
      1. in accordance with section 112 (which concerns the cancellation of registration or of a licence if the registration or licence was obtained wrongfully); or
        1. in accordance with section 113 (which concerns the cancellation or suspension of an overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence); or
          1. in accordance with section 132 (which concerns the revision of the register); or
            1. in accordance with Part 11 (which concerns disciplinary proceedings).

              1. If a person's registration is cancelled, the practising licence held by the person for the class of registration concerned (if any) is also cancelled.

              2. The Board may suspend—

              3. a person's registration—
                1. in accordance with section 113 (which concerns the cancellation or suspension of an overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence); or
                  1. in accordance with Part 11 (which concerns disciplinary proceedings):
                  2. a person's practising licence or provisional licence—
                    1. in accordance with section 109 (which concerns competence); or
                      1. in accordance with section 113 (which concerns the cancellation or suspension of an overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence); or
                        1. in accordance with Part 11 (which concerns disciplinary proceedings).

                        2. The cancellation or suspension of the registration, practising licence, or provisional licence of a person under this Act does not affect that person's liability for any act or default occurring before the cancellation or suspension.

                        3. If a person is registered under this Part in respect of more than 1 class of registration, the Board may exercise its powers to cancel or suspend registration or a practising licence under this Act in respect of each of those classes or 1 or more of those classes as the Board thinks fit.

                        Notes
                        • Section 110: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).