137Functions of Board

1. The functions of the Board are—

2. to designate classes of registration for the purposes of Part 2:
3. to specify for each of those classes the work that persons are authorised to do, or assist in doing, by virtue of being a registered person of a particular class and holding a current practising licence:
4. to prescribe the minimum standards for registration for each of those classes that persons must meet in order to be registered as registered persons and to be issued with practising licences:
5. to prescribe the terms and conditions subject to which persons are registered and licences are issued:
6. to prescribe standards or requirements relating to competent and safe work practices and the testing of those practices:
7. to recognise appropriate overseas qualifications, certificates, registration, or licences for the purposes of registering persons and issuing licences under Part 2:
8. to consider applications for registration and licences under Part 2, and to register persons and issue licences in proper cases:
9. to establish criteria for granting, and to grant, exemptions from registration and licensing requirements to persons and classes of persons:
10. to authorise persons to do certain things in accordance with Part 1 and to issue limited certificates in proper cases under that Part:
11. to renew licences for subsequent terms in proper cases:
12. to promote, monitor, and review—
    1. the ongoing competency and safe work practices of registered persons, provisional licence holders, and employer licence holders; and
    2. the ongoing competency and performance of certification authorities:
13. to make arrangements for the examination of persons practising or intending to practise the sanitary plumbing or gasfitting or drainlaying trades:
14. to present or issue, either independently or in conjunction with any other examining body, diplomas or certificates to persons in recognition of their proficiency in any of those trades:
15. to make recommendations to any person or body concerned with the education or training of any person wishing to enter the sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying trades, or with regard to any other matter affecting those trades:
16. to consider applications for appointment as a self-containment certification authority under section 87C, and to appoint persons in proper cases:
17. to hear complaints about, and discipline, persons to whom subpart 1 of Part 3 applies:
18. to hear complaints about or investigate on its own initiative, and discipline, persons appointed as certification authorities in accordance with section 87C:
19. to institute prosecutions against persons for—
    1. the breach of any legislation relating to sanitary plumbing, gasfitting, or drainlaying:
    2. the breach of any provisions in this Act relating to self-contained motor vehicles:
20. to make recommendations to the Minister with respect to the making of regulations, or the making of regulations controlling sanitary plumbing or drainlaying under the Health Act 1956:
21. to exercise and perform any other functions, duties, and powers as are conferred or imposed on the Board by or under this Act or by or under any other enactment:
22. to do any other things as may, in the Board’s opinion, be necessary for the effective administration of this Act:
23. to carry out any functions that are incidental and related to, or consequential on, its functions stated in this section.