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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Preliminary and key provisions - Key provisions - Specific sanitary plumbing exemptions

18: Exemption for installing and maintaining particular sanitary plumbing equipment

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"Some people can install and maintain certain sanitary plumbing equipment without a licence if they prove they are competent."

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You can install and maintain certain sanitary plumbing equipment if you show the Board you are competent. You do this by passing an examination or another test that proves you can do the work. The Board will say what equipment you can work with. You can install and maintain this equipment in industrial or commercial premises. The Board will specify what equipment you can work with in writing. You can also fix or unfix pipes for installation and maintenance. You can do this work yourself or have someone else do it under your supervision. The equipment must be the kind specified by the Board, as seen in legislation such as the s 56A from 1976.

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Key provisions: Specific sanitary plumbing exemptions

18Exemption for installing and maintaining particular sanitary plumbing equipment

  1. A person who satisfies the Board, whether by examination or otherwise, that the person is competent to install and maintain particular sanitary plumbing equipment or sanitary plumbing equipment of a particular kind may do the following work or have the work done by some other person acting under the person’s supervision:

  2. install and maintain in any industrial or commercial premises the equipment or equipment of a kind specified in writing by the Board as equipment of a kind that may be installed and maintained by the person; and
    1. fix or unfix pipes for the purposes of that installation and maintenance.

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