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Building Act 2004

Regulation of building practitioners - Preliminary - Purposes of licensing

282A: Purposes of licensing building practitioners

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“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:

  1. To check and record the skills and knowledge that building practitioners have about building work.

  2. 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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Part 4 Regulation of building practitioners
Preliminary: Purposes of licensing

282APurposes of licensing building practitioners

  1. The purposes of licensing building practitioners under this Act are—

  2. to assess and record building practitioners as having certain skills and knowledge relevant to building work; and
    1. to license building practitioners so that, in regard to restricted building work, licensed building practitioners can carry it out or supervise it.

      Notes
      • Section 282A: inserted, on , by section 55 of the Building Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 4).