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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

30: Board may prescribe other registration and licensing matters

You could also call this:

"The Board sets rules for plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers to follow."

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The Board can decide what standards you must meet to be registered as a plumber, gasfitter, or drainlayer. You must meet these standards to get a practising licence. The Board can also set terms and conditions for your registration and licence. The Board can say what you must do to work safely and competently. They can also require you to complete a programme to show you are competent. This applies if you are applying for a licence, already have one, or want to renew it. The Board can recognise overseas qualifications if they are equivalent to New Zealand standards. They can also make arrangements with other countries to recognise each other's registrations and licences.

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29: Board must consider designating classes of registration that replace or correspond to types of registration under former Act, or

"The Board must consider creating new registration classes to replace old ones for plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers."

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31: Minimum standards for registration, or

"What you need to do to become a registered plumber, gasfitter, or drainlayer"

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

30Board may prescribe other registration and licensing matters

  1. The Board may, by notice,—

  2. prescribe for each class of registration the minimum standards for registration (including standards relating to required competence, qualifications, and experience) that persons must meet in order to be registered as registered persons and to be issued with practising licences; and
    1. prescribe for each class of registration the terms and conditions subject to which persons are registered as registered persons; and
      1. prescribe for each class of registration the terms and conditions subject to which practising licences are issued; and
        1. prescribe requirements relating to competent and safe work practices and the testing of those practices; and
          1. prescribe requirements relating to the completion of competence programmes in respect of persons who—
            1. apply for practising licences or provisional licences; or
              1. hold practising licences or provisional licences; or
                1. apply for renewals of practising licences or provisional licences; and
                2. recognise any overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence as satisfying a particular minimum standard for registration (in whole or in part) if, in the opinion of the Board, that overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence is equivalent to, or as satisfactory as, the standard, or part of the standard, that is treated as being satisfied.

                  1. The terms and conditions referred to in subsection (1)(c) may include, for example,—

                  2. a term that authorises the person to test or certify work or to supervise work:
                    1. a condition that requires compliance with the requirements referred to in subsection (1)(d):
                      1. a condition that requires the person to complete a competence programme:
                        1. a condition that imposes limitations on the circumstances in which the person may do, or assist in doing, work:
                          1. a condition that imposes limits on the work that the person may do, or assist in doing, under the practising licence.

                            1. The Board may make arrangements with the appropriate authorities controlling the registration, licensing, or recognition of sanitary plumbers, gasfitters, or drainlayers outside New Zealand for the reciprocal recognition of registration, licences, certificates, or other evidence of proficiency in sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying.

                            Notes
                            • Section 30(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).