Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Registration and licensing of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers - Plumber, gasfitter, and drainlayer registration and licensing - How to become registered

38: Registrar may issue provisional licence pending consideration of application

You could also call this:

"The Registrar can give you a temporary licence to do plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work while they consider your application."

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You can get a provisional licence from the Registrar to do certain plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work. The Registrar can give you this licence if you pay the required fee. The Registrar can also set conditions for your provisional licence. You are allowed to do the work specified in your provisional licence while your application is being considered. This licence lets you do, or help with, the work it specifies. The provisional licence is only valid until your application is decided. The Registrar decides what work you can do with a provisional licence and what conditions you must follow. You must follow these conditions to keep your provisional licence. Your provisional licence is only for the work specified in it.

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Work and jobs > Job licenses

37: Applications for registration, or

"How to apply to be a registered plumber, gasfitter, or drainlayer"

39: Duration of provisional licence, or

"How long a provisional licence lasts"

Part 2Registration and licensing of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers
Plumber, gasfitter, and drainlayer registration and licensing: How to become registered

38Registrar may issue provisional licence pending consideration of application

The Registrar may, on payment of the prescribed fee (if any), issue to any person a provisional licence to carry out any specified sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying.
The Registrar may issue the provisional licence subject to any terms and conditions that the Registrar thinks fit.
A provisional licence authorises the holder, while the licence is in force pending the consideration of his or her application for registration or a practising licence (or both) under this subpart, to do, or assist in doing, the work that is specified in the licence.