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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 - Competence

55: Competence programmes

You could also call this:

"Programmes to Help You Prove You're Good at Plumbing, Gasfitting, or Drainlaying"

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The Board can create or approve programmes to check or improve your competence in sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work. You might need to complete one of these programmes if you are applying for a licence, already have a licence, or want to renew your licence. The Board can decide who needs to complete a programme and what the programme requires you to do. You can be required to complete a programme if your registration or licence has conditions that say you must, or if you need to meet a minimum standard for registration. The programme might require you to pass an exam, do practical training, or complete a course of study. The Board can also say how long you have to complete the programme. The Board can choose to exempt you or a group of people from some or all of the programme requirements. They can also decide to publish the programme or exemption, unless it only applies to one or more named people, as explained in the Legislation Act 2019. This means the Board has to follow certain rules when creating or approving programmes and exemptions.

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

55Competence programmes

  1. For the purpose of examining or improving the competence of persons who do, or assist in doing, sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work, the Board may set or recognise competence programmes in respect of persons who—

  2. 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.

        1. Any competence programme may be made to apply generally in respect of all of those persons, or in respect of a specified person, or in respect of any specified class of those persons.

        2. However, a registered person may be required by the Board to complete a competence programme only if 1 or more of the following applies:

        3. the registration of the person or the practising licence held by the person is subject to a condition imposed by a notice published under section 30 that requires the person to complete a competence programme; or
          1. the person is required to complete a competence programme in accordance with an applicable minimum standard for registration; or
            1. the person is required to complete a competence programme in accordance with a requirement imposed by a notice published under section 30(1)(e); or
              1. the person is required to complete a competence programme under section 54 (which relates to a review of a person’s competence) or Part 3 (which relates to discipline).

                1. Any competence programme may require a person to do 1 or more of the following, within the period, or at the intervals, prescribed in the programme:

                2. pass an examination:
                  1. complete a period of practical training:
                    1. complete a period of practical experience:
                      1. undertake a course of studies:
                        1. anything else that the Board considers appropriate.

                          1. The Board may specify a period within which the person to whom a competence programme applies must comply with the requirements of the programme.

                          2. The Board may exempt any person or class of persons from all or any of the requirements of a competence programme.

                          3. The following are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements), unless they apply only to 1 or more named persons:

                          4. a competence programme set or recognised under this section:
                            1. an exemption under subsection (6).

                              Notes
                              • Section 55(7): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).