Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Self-contained motor vehicles - Board appoints and regulates certification authorities - Board may consider complaints and conduct investigations

87M: Powers of inspection to investigate complaint

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"The Board can investigate complaints about certification authorities by inspecting premises and checking documents."

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The Board can investigate a complaint about a self-containment certification authority. You can make a complaint under section 87I or the Board can start an investigation on its own under section 87K. The Board must tell the authority about the investigation and why it is happening. The Board can send someone to inspect the authority's premises at a reasonable time. You can be asked to show documents or information to the Board. The Board can take copies of documents or ask for more information. The Board has to give the authority time to get the documents or information ready. The inspection can happen at any reasonable time. The Board can enter the premises to do the inspection.

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Part 2ASelf-contained motor vehicles
Board appoints and regulates certification authorities: Board may consider complaints and conduct investigations

87MPowers of inspection to investigate complaint

  1. The Board may use the powers in this section for the purpose of investigating a self-containment certification authority if—

  2. the Board has accepted a complaint made under section 87I about the self-containment certification authority; or
    1. the Board is conducting an investigation on its own initiative under section 87K.
      1. The Board must, before using the powers in this section, give reasonable notice in writing to the self-containment certification authority concerned of—

      2. the Board’s intention to use the powers; and
        1. the reasons why the Board intends to use the powers.
          1. The Board may authorise a person—

          2. to inspect, at any reasonable time, any premises (not being a dwellinghouse or marae) occupied by the self-containment certification authority; and
            1. to enter and re-enter any place for the purpose of conducting the inspection authorised by paragraph (a).
              1. The Board may do 1 or more of the following:

              2. require the self-containment certification authority to produce for inspection, within a reasonable period that the Board may specify, a document or class of document in the possession or under the control of the self-containment certification authority:
                1. take copies of, or extracts from, any documents produced:
                  1. require the self-containment certification authority to provide, within any reasonable period that the Board specifies, any information or class of information that the Board requires.
                    Notes
                    • Section 87M: inserted, on , by section 48 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).