Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Discipline and offences - Discipline - Preliminary provisions

89: Disciplinary offence

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"Breaking the rules for plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers"

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You can commit a disciplinary offence if you do plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work in a negligent or incompetent manner. You can also commit an offence if you break any rules about doing this type of work. This includes doing work that you are not allowed to do, or using faulty appliances. You might commit an offence if you deceive someone who checks your work or if you give them false information. You can also commit an offence if you do not give the owner of a house a record of the work you did, or if you employ someone who is not allowed to do this type of work. You can commit an offence if you have been convicted of a crime related to plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying. You must follow the rules and do your work properly, or you might be found guilty of a disciplinary offence under Part 4 or section 27A, or the Health Act 1956, or the Gas Act 1992, or Part 2. You have to be honest and competent in your work. If you are not, you might be found guilty of a disciplinary offence.

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88: Persons to whom this subpart applies, or

"Who this part of the law applies to"

90: Complaints, or

"Telling the Board about someone who broke the rules"

Part 3Discipline and offences
Discipline: Preliminary provisions

89Disciplinary offence

For the purposes of this subpart, a person to whom this subpart applies is guilty of a disciplinary offence if that person is found, in any proceedings under this subpart, or in any appeal under Part 4,—
to have carried out or caused to be carried out sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work—
1. in a negligent or incompetent manner; or
2. in a manner contrary to any enactment relating to sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying that was in force at the time the work was done; or
to have intentionally or negligently created a risk of serious harm to any person, or significant property damage, through—
1. having used or caused to be used faulty or improper appliances, pipes, drains, sanitary fixtures, or fittings; or
2. having carried out or caused to be carried out any sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work; or
to have failed to have complied with a term or condition of the person’s registration or licence; or
to have done sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work that, under the terms of any restriction or limitation that applies to the work that the person may do, the person is not authorised to do; or
to have intentionally deceived or attempted to deceive any registered person who is authorised to test and certify sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work by—
1. purposely concealing inferior work or inferior appliances, pipes, drains, sanitary fixtures, or fittings used; or
2. making any false or misleading statement (whether in writing or not) to that person; or
to have failed to provide any return required under any enactment relating to sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work or to have provided a false or misleading return; or
to have failed to provide, without good reason, in respect of the prescribed sanitary plumbing or drainlaying that they have carried out or supervised, a record of work in the prescribed form (if any) on the completion of that work to the owner of the dwelling, in accordance with section 27A; or
to have employed, directed, or permitted any unauthorised person to do any sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying work; or
to have been convicted of an offence relating to sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying against this Act or the former Act or the Health Act 1956, or against any regulations made under this Act or either of those Acts or under the Gas Act 1992; or
to be guilty of improper or incompetent conduct in performing that person’s work, or in charging for it, that renders that person unfit to be registered or licensed under Part 2.

Notes

Section 89(fa): inserted, on 25 October 2025, by section 44 of the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 59).