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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Preliminary and key provisions - Key provisions - Restrictions on doing or assisting with sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying

10: Restrictions on doing or assisting with drainlaying

You could also call this:

"Rules for who can do drainlaying work"

Illustration for Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

You must not do drainlaying or help with it unless you are allowed to. You can do drainlaying or help with it if you have a current practising licence or a provisional licence. You are allowed to do drainlaying or help with it if you follow the rules in sections 12 to 27. You do not break the rules if you do drainlaying or help with it according to the rules. The rules about who can do drainlaying or help with it also depend on sections 11 to 27. You need to check these sections to see what you are allowed to do. You have to make sure you are allowed to do drainlaying or help with it before you start. This means you need to have the right licence or follow the rules in the Act. You can find more information about the rules in the related sections.

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Part 1Preliminary and key provisions
Key provisions: Restrictions on doing or assisting with sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying

10Restrictions on doing or assisting with drainlaying

  1. A person must not do any drainlaying, or assist in doing any drainlaying, unless that person is authorised to do so under this section.

  2. The following persons may do drainlaying, or assist in doing drainlaying, within the limits prescribed in regulations (if any):

  3. a registered person who is authorised to do, or assist in doing, the work under a current practising licence; or
    1. a person who is authorised to do, or assist in doing, the work under a provisional licence.

      1. A person does not do any drainlaying, or assist in doing any drainlaying, in breach of this section if that work is done in accordance with sections 12 to 27.

      2. Subsection (1) is subject to subsection (3) and sections 11 to 27.