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Electricity Act 1992

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

113: Cancellation or suspension of overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence

You could also call this:

“Overseas electrical workers can lose their right to work in New Zealand”

If you have an overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence for electrical work in New Zealand, the Board can review it in certain situations. This can happen if the school that gave you the qualification has cancelled or suspended it, or if an overseas authority has taken disciplinary action against you.

The Board decides how to do the review. They must tell you why they’re doing it and give you a chance to respond in writing or speak to them about it.

After the review, the Board can decide to suspend your registration or licence for a while, or cancel it completely. They will give you a copy of their decision. The Board’s decision starts working either when you get the copy or on a date they specify, whichever is later.

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

113Cancellation or suspension of overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence

  1. The Board may review the registration, practising licence, or provisional licence of a person who was registered or issued with the licence by virtue of an overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence if satisfied that—

  2. the educational establishment that gave him or her an overseas qualification or certificate has cancelled or suspended it (or taken action equivalent to cancelling or suspending it); or
    1. an overseas authority that maintains a register of people registered or licensed as electrical workers has, as a result of disciplinary action taken against the person,—
      1. removed his or her name from that register; or
        1. cancelled his or her licence; or
          1. suspended his or her registration or licence; or
            1. taken action equivalent to an action referred to in subparagraph (i) or (ii) or (iii).

            2. The form of a review under this section is at the Board's discretion.

            3. However, in conducting the review, the Board must give the person concerned—

            4. the particulars that are reasonably necessary to clearly inform the person of the substance of the grounds on which the Board has decided to carry out the review; and
              1. a reasonable opportunity to make written submissions and be heard on the question, either personally or by his or her representative.

                1. After the review, the Board may, if it thinks fit,—

                2. order the suspension of the person's registration, practising licence, or provisional licence for any period it thinks fit; or
                  1. order the cancellation of the person's registration, practising licence, or provisional licence.

                    1. The Registrar must ensure that a copy of the order made under subsection (4) is given to the person concerned.

                    2. An order made under subsection (4) 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.

                    Notes
                    • Section 113: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).