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282: Definitions for this Part
or “This section explains important words and ideas used in the rules about building work and people who do it.”

You could also call this:

“Licensing building practitioners helps check and record their skills, and allows them to do or watch over special building jobs.”

The law says there are two main reasons for licensing building practitioners:

To check and record the skills and knowledge that building practitioners have about building work.
To give licenses to building practitioners so they can do or supervise restricted building work.

When the law talks about “restricted building work”, it means special types of building work that only licensed practitioners can do or watch over.

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or “The Board and Registrar must follow specific rules when making decisions about people.”

The purposes of licensing building practitioners under this Act are—
to assess and record building practitioners as having certain skills and knowledge relevant to building work; and
to license building practitioners so that, in regard to restricted building work, licensed building practitioners can carry it out or supervise it.

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