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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Preliminary and key provisions - Preliminary provisions

3: Purposes of this Act

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"Keeping You Safe: What This Law is For"

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The purposes of this Act are to protect your health and safety by ensuring people who do sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying are competent. This Act also regulates people who do this work and appoints and regulates certification authorities.

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Preliminary provisions

3Purposes of this Act

  1. The purposes of this Act are—

  2. to protect the health and safety of members of the public by ensuring the competency of persons engaged in the provision of sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying services; and
    1. to regulate persons who carry out sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying; and
      1. to appoint and regulate certification authorities.

        Notes
        • Section 3(c): inserted, on , by section 44 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).