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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Registration and licensing of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers - Plumber, gasfitter, and drainlayer registration and licensing - Classes of registration

28: Classes of registration may be designated by Board

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"The Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board decides what types of registration are available for plumbers."

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The Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board can decide what classes of registration are available. You can be registered in a class that lets you do certain types of sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work. The Board can also say what work you can do if you are registered in a particular class and have a current practising licence. The Board can describe the classes of registration in different ways, such as by a name that plumbers understand. They can also describe classes by an area of science or by the tasks you do. The Board can limit the work you can do, even if you are registered and have a licence. The Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board is in charge of deciding these classes and rules, as stated in sections 29 to 35 and 142 to 145, and Part 4. You need to follow these rules if you want to be a registered plumber, gasfitter, or drainlayer. The Board's rules apply to you if you are registered and want to do certain types of work.

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Part 2Registration and licensing of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers
Plumber, gasfitter, and drainlayer registration and licensing: Classes of registration

28Classes of registration may be designated by Board

  1. The Board may, by notice,—

  2. designate classes of registration for the purposes of this subpart; and
    1. specify for each of those classes the sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying that a person is authorised to do, or assist in doing, by virtue of being a registered person of a particular class and holding a current practising licence.

      1. The notice may describe the classes of registration in any way the Board thinks fit, including in 1 or more of the following ways:

      2. by reference to a name or form of words that is commonly understood by persons who carry out plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying:
        1. by reference to an area of science or learning:
          1. by reference to tasks commonly performed.

            1. In specifying the work that may be carried out by registered persons who hold current practising licences, the Board may impose limitations on the circumstances in which a registered person may do, or assist in doing, that work.

            2. For the purposes of this section and sections 29 to 35 and 142 to 145, Board means the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board (whether constituted under the former Act or continued under Part 4).

            Notes
            • Section 28(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).