134Membership of Board

1. The Board consists of—

2. 2 persons who are registered, or entitled to be registered, under Part 2 in relation to a class of registration that includes or involves sanitary plumbing or sanitary plumbing of a particular kind, of whom at least 1 must be a person who holds a current practising licence; and
3. 2 persons who are registered, or entitled to be registered, under Part 2 in relation to a class of registration that includes or involves gasfitting or gasfitting of a particular kind, of whom at least 1 must be a person who holds a current practising licence; and
4. 2 persons who are registered, or entitled to be registered, under Part 2 in relation to a class of registration that includes or involves drainlaying or drainlaying of a particular kind, of whom at least 1 must be a person who holds a current practising licence; and
5. 4 other persons, of whom—
   1. 1 (but not more than 1) may be a registered person; and
   2. 1 must be a person whom the Minister considers has appropriate experience in relevant tertiary or vocational education; and
   3. 2 must be persons whom the Minister considers are able to represent consumer interests.

6. Each member is appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

7. Every person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held office as a member of the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board under the former Act is deemed to be appointed as a member of the Board under this section.

8. The term of office of every person deemed to be appointed as a member of the Board under subsection (3) expires on the date on which, but for the passing of this Act, that term would have expired under the former Act.