Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

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

53: Review of registered person’s competence

You could also call this:

"Checking if a plumber, gasfitter, or drainlayer is doing their job safely and well"

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The Board can check if you are competent to do plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work at any time. They will look at whether you meet the current standards for registration. They will also check if you might put people's health or safety at risk. The Board will consider if you have done your work to a good standard. They do this to ensure you are competent to do your job. You must meet the standards for your type of registration. The Board's opinion is important in this review. They will decide if you are competent or not. This review helps keep people safe.

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52: Board may grant exemptions from registration and licence requirements and conditions, or

"The Board can excuse plumbers, gasfitters, or drainlayers from some rules."

54: Procedure on review of competence, or

"How the Board Checks a Plumber's Competence"

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

53Review of registered person’s competence

The Board may, at any time, review the competence of a registered person to do, or assist in doing, sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work, whether or not there is reason to believe that the person’s competence may be deficient.
In conducting a review under subsection (1), the Board must consider the following matters:
whether, in the Board’s opinion, the registered person meets the current applicable minimum standards for registration; and
whether, in the Board’s opinion, there is any reason to believe that the registered person may endanger the health or safety of members of the public; and
whether, in the Board’s opinion, the registered person has carried out, or caused to be carried out, sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work to the standard reasonably to be expected of a registered person of the same class of registration as the registered person concerned.