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Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Registration and licensing of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers - Employer licences in respect of gasfitting

62: Employer licence in respect of gasfitting

You could also call this:

"Getting a licence to employ gasfitters"

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You can get an employer licence for gasfitting if you apply and pay a fee. You must show the Board you have a system that meets the rules and regulations. This system must ensure your employees are competent and get the supervision and training they need. You must also make sure your employees' work is safe and competent, and follows the Gas Act 1992 and its regulations. An approved person can certify your system, and you will get a certificate. This certification can end if it is revoked or its term ends. The Board can stop you from getting a licence if you have done something wrong. The Board can also add conditions to your licence, like what types of gasfitting you can do. An approved person is someone chosen by the regulations to check your system.

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Part 2Registration and licensing of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers
Employer licences in respect of gasfitting

62Employer licence in respect of gasfitting

  1. A person is, on application in the prescribed form (if any) and on payment of the prescribed fee (if any), entitled to be issued with an employer licence by the Board if the person satisfies the Board that the person will at all times maintain a system of operation—

  2. that complies with the requirements that are prescribed by regulations; and
    1. that is sufficient to ensure that employees of that person who do or assist in doing gasfitting—
      1. are competent to carry out the range of work for which they are employed; and
        1. receive the supervision and training that is necessary to ensure that the work—
          1. is carried out safely and competently; and
            1. complies with the requirements of the Gas Act 1992 and any regulations made under section 54 of that Act.

          2. A person must be treated as maintaining a system of operation described in subsection (1)(a) and (b) if an approved person, in the prescribed manner, certifies that the system of operation complies with those provisions, and issues a certificate to that effect in the prescribed form.

          3. A certification under subsection (2) ceases to have effect if—

          4. the approved person, by notice in writing to the certificate holder, revokes the certificate; or
            1. the term of the certification comes to an end.

              1. However, a person is not entitled to be issued with an employer licence if the person is precluded from holding an employer licence because of any action taken by the Board under section 66.

              2. The Board may impose in respect of any employer licence issued under this section any terms and conditions that the Board thinks fit (for example, by restricting the types of gasfitting that may otherwise be done under the licence).

              3. For the purposes of this section, approved person means—

              4. a person designated by regulations as an approved person:
                1. a member of a class of persons designated by regulations as a class of approved persons.

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