Job licenses
This page contains different parts of laws about Job licenses, within the topic of Work and jobs.
Related Plain Language Law
Weights and Measures Act 1987
What inspectors need to know about their job certificates
27: Certificates of appointment
Weights and Measures Act 1987
How long accreditation lasts and how to renew it
30C: Duration and renewal of accreditation
Weights and Measures Act 1987
When and how the government can take away someone's special permission to do certain jobs
30D: Revocation of accreditation
Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act 2008
Financial advisers can lose their registration if they don't work with a provider for a long time
22D: Financial adviser may be deregistered if not engaged by provider for extended period
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Keeping You Safe with Trained and Accountable Social Workers
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The name of the law that registers social workers in New Zealand.
1: Title
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
When the Social Workers Registration Act 2003 starts to apply in New Zealand
2: Commencement
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
This law helps keep people safe by making sure social workers are good at their job and follow the rules.
3: Purpose
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What special words mean in the Social Workers Registration Act 2003
4: Interpretation
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The law applies to the government too
5: Act binds the Crown
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Rules for social workers to legally work in New Zealand.
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How New Zealand-qualified social workers can register to work in their field
6: Entitlement of New Zealand-qualified applicants to registration within scope of practice
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Overseas social workers can register in New Zealand if they meet certain requirements.
7: Entitlement of overseas-qualified applicants to registration within scope of practice
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Applying to be a registered social worker and get permission to work in your role
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How to apply to be a registered social worker in New Zealand
8: Applications for registration and authorisation to practise within scope of practice of social work profession
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board looks at your application to be a social worker.
9: Consideration of applications by Board
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Temporary social worker registration with special conditions
10: Provisional registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Working as a social worker for a short time with special rules
11: Temporary registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Rules for social workers to legally work in New Zealand
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What you need to do to become a fully registered social worker
12: Criteria for full registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board can register you as a social worker if you have enough work experience, even if you don't have the usual qualifications.
13: Board may recognise practical experience in certain cases
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How to get a temporary social worker licence: meeting the basic requirements
14: Criteria for provisional registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Rules for social workers to work in New Zealand for a short time
15: Criteria for temporary registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Re-registering as a social worker if you were registered before
16: Applications by certain people previously registered
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What you need to do to be allowed to work as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Registrar must add your name to the list if your application to be a social worker is approved.
18: Registrar to register successful applicants
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Registrar must inform you if your social worker application is declined
19: Registrar to notify unsuccessful applicants
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Proof of being a registered social worker
20: Certificates of registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What to do with your social worker registration certificate if it's cancelled, suspended, or changed
21: Surrender of certificate of registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Limited registration means you can only work as a social worker in certain situations.
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How to renew your limited social worker registration
22: Renewal of limited registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What you need to do to renew your limited registration as a social worker
23: Criteria for renewal of limited registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
When a social worker's limited registration can be cancelled by the Board.
24: Cancellation of limited registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Special cards that say you can work as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Registered social workers must have a practising certificate to work in New Zealand.
25: Practising registered social workers to hold practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How social workers can apply for a practising certificate
26: Applications for practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens when you apply for a practising certificate and follow the rules
27: Effect of making compliant application
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Getting a certificate to work as a social worker
28: Issue of practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board can set basic rules for social workers to follow.
29: Board may adopt general conditions
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Rules for Getting a Social Worker's Practising Certificate
30: Restrictions on issue of practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board checks your social worker application to see if you can work as a social worker.
31: Board to consider certain applications
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens when the Board looks at your application for a practising certificate and might say no or add conditions.
32: Procedure for consideration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board decides who gets a practising certificate to work as a social worker
33: Decisions of Board as to practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How long a social worker's practising certificate is valid for
34: Currency of practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Rules social workers must follow to keep their practising certificate
35: Conditions on practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What to do with your social worker certificate if it's cancelled or changed
36: Surrender of practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Temporary social worker licence
37: Interim practising certificates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Being good at your job and able to do it properly is important.
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Proving you're good enough to work as a social worker
38: Competence to practise as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Checking if a social worker is doing their job properly
39: Reviews of competence to practise as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How the Board checks if a social worker is doing their job properly and what you can do about it
40: Form of review
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens if the Board checks a social worker's competence and finds they need to improve
41: Actions after review of competence
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Checks to see if social workers are good at their job
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Checking if you have the skills to be a social worker
42: Competence assessments
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
This law about keeping copies of social worker competence assessments was removed in 2021.
43: Copies of competence assessments to be available
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Registered social workers must do a check-up every 5 years to keep working.
44: Registered social workers to complete assessments every 5 years
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens if a social worker fails a competence assessment
45: Actions if social worker fails assessment
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Keeping secrets: social workers must keep other people's information private
46: Confidentiality of information
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Being a good social worker means being fit to do the job and not doing anything very wrong.
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Being a good social worker: what you need to be able to do the job
47: Fitness to practise as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Is a social worker a good fit for the job?
48: Consideration of fitness to practise as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens if the Board thinks a social worker is not suitable to work?
49: Action if Board considers social worker not fit and proper
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board checks if you're suitable to be a social worker by looking at your police record and other information.
50: Board to ask for Police vet, and consider convictions and other information
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Things that might stop someone from being able to work as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Telling the Board about a social worker who can't do their job properly because of a health issue
51: Reporting of conditions affecting ability to practise as a social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Getting medical advice to help you make a report
52: Power to seek medical advice
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Registrar must give the report to the chairperson so they can discuss it at a meeting.
53: Report to be put before chairperson
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Temporary stops on social workers that are no longer used
54: Interim suspensions
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board can make social workers see a doctor to check they can do their job properly.
55: Power to order medical examination
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens if a social worker needs a medical check to keep working
56: Conduct and consequences of examination
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board can limit or stop a social worker's work if a mental or physical condition affects their job.
57: Individual scope of practice may be changed or registration or practising certificate may be suspended because of mental or physical condition
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
When a social worker can work properly again, the Board can lift their suspension or change their work rules.
58: Revocation of suspension or change to individual scope of practice
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Complaints about social workers' behaviour are dealt with here.
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How to complain about a social worker
59: Complaints against social workers
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Registrar must tell the Board about complaints in writing
60: Registrar to notify Board of complaints
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Health and Disability Commissioner can report complaints about social workers to the Board
62: Health and Disability Commissioner may notify Board of complaints
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Telling the Board about social workers who break the law
63: Notification of convictions
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Wait for the Health and Disability Commissioner to finish looking into a complaint about a social worker before taking any further action.
64: Suspension of action while Health and Disability Commissioner investigates
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens when you complain about a social worker
65: Referral of complaints to professional conduct committees
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Groups that help keep social workers behaving professionally
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Teams that help decide if social workers behaved properly
66: Professional conduct committees
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Committees can make their own meeting rules, but must be fair and follow the law.
67: Committees may regulate own procedure
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Telling the social worker and complainant about the complaint or conviction
69: Information to be given to social worker and complainant
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Ask for a change to the committee deciding your case
70: Social workers and complainants may request changes in membership of professional conduct committee
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
A committee decides what to do about a complaint against a social worker
71: Determination of complaint or notice of conviction by professional conduct committee
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens after a committee makes a decision about a social worker?
72: Procedure after committee makes determination (other than to take no further action)
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Talking it through: helping you and a social worker resolve a complaint
73: Conciliation and mediation
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
A committee can suggest stopping a social worker's licence or limiting their work.
74: Committee may recommend suspension of registration or practising certificate or imposition of conditions
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
How a special group makes decisions about social workers
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens when a complaint is made against a social worker and they have to go to a Tribunal
75: Laying of charge before Tribunal
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Telling a social worker about a complaint made against them
76: Notice of disciplinary proceedings to be given to social worker
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Tribunal can temporarily stop a social worker from working or add rules to their work to keep people safe.
77: Interim suspension of registration or practising certificate or imposition of conditions on practice
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
A social worker can ask to cancel a direction made about their work.
78: Social worker may apply for revocation of direction
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
When a social worker does something wrong, the Tribunal can make an order to protect the public.
82: Grounds on which Tribunal may make order
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens to social workers who do something wrong
83: Penalties
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Getting your social worker registration back after it's been cancelled
84: Orders as to restoration of registration
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
What happens when the Tribunal makes a decision about a social worker
85: Orders of Tribunal
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
The Board pays for costs and can use special orders or a disciplinary levy to get its money back.
86: Funding
Social Workers Registration Act 2003
Paying back fines and costs you owe
87: Recovery of fines and costs
Search and Surveillance Act 2012
Changes are made to the law that helps keep health workers competent and safe.
Civil Aviation Act 1990
You might need special papers to do things in flying
7: Requirement for aviation document
Civil Aviation Act 1990
Rules for deciding if someone can work in aviation
10: Criteria for fit and proper person test
Civil Aviation Act 1990
Rules for getting a doctor's check before you can fly a plane
27D: Medical examination, report, and disclosure
Civil Aviation Act 1990
You can get in trouble for doing aviation work without the right papers
46: Acting without necessary aviation document
Resource Management Act 1991
Getting a special badge to show you are qualified for a job
39A: Accreditation
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about who can do electrical work and when special permission is needed
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about who can do special electrical work or help with it
74: Restrictions on doing or assisting with prescribed electrical work
Electricity Act 1992
Trainees can do some electrical work while learning to be an electrician
77: Exemption for trainees
Electricity Act 1992
Board can give special certificates for specific purposes
78: Board may issue limited certificate for purposes of section 77
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for dealing with complaints about people who work with electricity
Electricity Act 1992
How long an employer's electricity licence lasts
118: Duration of employer licence
Electricity Act 1992
Board listens to employer's side before making decisions
121: Board must give employer licence holder reasonable opportunity to be heard
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about paying fines and following orders when the Board takes action against you
122: Miscellaneous provisions concerning actions under section 120
Electricity Act 1992
The Board keeps a list of all electrical workers
124: Register of electrical workers
Electricity Act 1992
Registrar writes down important information about electrical workers and companies
125: Registrar must enter matters in register
Electricity Act 1992
The register helps people find and check information about electricians and electrical workers
126: Purpose of register
Electricity Act 1992
How the electrical workers register is kept and accessed
127: Form of register
Electricity Act 1992
What important information about electrical workers is kept in a special list?
128: Matters to be contained in register
Electricity Act 1992
Old electrical worker records are saved but don't give work rights
129: Historical registration and licence information and documentation to be included in register
Electricity Act 1992
Let the Registrar know if you move house within 3 months
130: Duty to notify change of address
Electricity Act 1992
Tell the Registrar if you change your name
131: Duty to notify change of name
Electricity Act 1992
Checking and updating the list of people with electrical licenses
132: Revision of register
Electricity Act 1992
Getting your electrician's registration or licence back after it was cancelled
133: Restoration of registration or licence
Electricity Act 1992
Board can ask Registrar to write down important changes about electrical workers
134: Board may direct Registrar to record cancellation, suspension, or order
Electricity Act 1992
The Registrar can update or fix information in the register
135: Alterations to register
Electricity Act 1992
The public can see and get copies of the list of electrical workers and employers
136: Register to be public
Electricity Act 1992
Keeping some information about electrical workers private
137: Restricting public access to information and documents on register
Electricity Act 1992
You can look at the list of electrical workers if you follow the rules
138: Search of register
Electricity Act 1992
Who this part of the law is for and when it matters
142: Persons to whom this Part applies
Electricity Act 1992
Things electrical workers can get in trouble for
143: Disciplinary offence
Electricity Act 1992
How the Electrical Workers Registration Board is set up and what it does
Electricity Act 1992
There's a special group that looks after electrical workers
148: Electrical Workers Registration Board
Electricity Act 1992
The Board's job is to keep electrical work safe and fair in New Zealand
149: Functions of Board
Electricity Act 1992
Who can be part of the Electrical Workers Registration Board and how they are chosen
150: Membership
Electricity Act 1992
The Board must have a Registrar who can also do other jobs
151: Registrar
Electricity Act 1992
Telling lies or giving wrong information to get registered is not allowed
160: False declarations and representations
Electricity Act 1992
Don't pretend to be licensed or registered for electrical work if you're not
161: Unlicensed or unregistered person must not claim to be licensed or registered
Electricity Act 1992
You can get in trouble for doing electrical work you're not allowed to do
162: Offence to engage in prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74
Electricity Act 1992
It's against the law to hire someone to do electrical work if they're not allowed to
163: Offence to employ person to engage in prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74
Electricity Act 1992
Special certificate needed for electrical work in building projects
179: Certificate of compliance where prescribed electrical work covered by building consent
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for handling unfinished investigations and punishments from old electrical laws
182: Transitional provisions relating to proceedings, etc
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for how the Electrical Workers Registration Board works and what it does
Schedule 2: Provisions applying in respect of Electrical Workers Registration Board
Electricity Act 1992
List of old electricity rules that are no longer used
Schedule 5: Regulations and orders revoked
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can create different types of electrical work registration, with Minister's approval
84: Classes of registration may be designated by Board
Electricity Act 1992
The Board decides how to become a registered electrical worker and get a licence to work
85: Board may prescribe other registration and licensing matters
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for becoming a registered electrician
86: Minimum standards for registration
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for becoming an electrical worker: Making sure it's safe and fair
87: Principles guiding prescribing of registration and licensing matters
Electricity Act 1992
The Board must ask for opinions before making important rules about electrical workers
88: Board must consult before making notices
Electricity Act 1992
Who can become registered as an electrician
91: Entitlement to registration
Electricity Act 1992
How to apply to be registered as an electrical worker
92: Applications for registration
Electricity Act 1992
You can get a temporary licence while waiting for a full one
93: Board may issue provisional licence pending consideration of application
Electricity Act 1992
How long a temporary electrician's license lasts and when it can end
94: Duration of provisional licence
Electricity Act 1992
The Board checks your application to become a registered electrician
95: Board to consider application
Electricity Act 1992
Board decides if you can be an electrical worker
96: Board to register applicant or decline application
Electricity Act 1992
Rules you must follow when you become a registered electrical worker
97: Registration subject to terms and conditions
Electricity Act 1992
You need a special licence to do electrical work
98: Practising licence required
Electricity Act 1992
How to get a licence to do electrical work
99: Entitlement to practising licence
Electricity Act 1992
How to apply for a licence to work as an electrician
100: Applications for practising licence
Electricity Act 1992
The Board must review your application quickly and fairly
101: Board to consider application
Electricity Act 1992
Board checks if you can get a work permit for electrical jobs
102: Board to issue practising licence or decline application
Electricity Act 1992
A practising licence comes with rules you must follow
103: Practising licence subject to terms and conditions
Electricity Act 1992
How long a practising licence lasts and when it can end
104: Duration of practising licence
Electricity Act 1992
How to ask for a new work licence before your old one runs out
105: Applications for renewal of practising licence
Electricity Act 1992
How to get your practising licence renewed
106: Renewal of practising licence
Electricity Act 1992
Board can make special exceptions for people who want to work with electricity
107: Board may grant exemptions from registration and practising licence requirements and conditions
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for special training programs to check or improve electrical workers' skills
108: Competence programmes
Electricity Act 1992
What happens if you don't pass a test for your electrician licence
109: Unsatisfactory results of competence programme
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can cancel or pause your work permission for different reasons
110: Cancellation and suspension generally
Electricity Act 1992
What happens when your electrical work permission is put on hold
111: Effect of suspension
Electricity Act 1992
Board can take away your licence if you weren't honest when you got it
112: Board may cancel registration or licence if obtained wrongfully
Electricity Act 1992
Overseas electrical workers can lose their right to work in New Zealand
113: Cancellation or suspension of overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can give some of its jobs to plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers
114: Board may delegate power to Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board to act under this subpart
Electricity Act 1992
Explaining how businesses can get permission to have workers do electrical jobs
115: Employer licence
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about who can do electrical work and how they show they're good at it
Electricity Act 1992
Rules about stopping or pausing someone's permission to do electrical work
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for dealing with complaints about people who work with electricity
Electricity Act 1992
What an investigator must do with their special permission paper
147B: Duties of investigator supplied with warrant of authority
Electricity Act 1992
Board must have a meeting to talk about complaints about electricians if the investigator says it's important
147G: Board must hold hearing if investigator reports that complaint should be considered by Board
Electricity Act 1992
The Board sends you a letter if there's going to be a meeting about your work
147H: Notice of disciplinary proceedings
Electricity Act 1992
Temporary stop on electricians working while safety concerns are checked
147I: Interim suspension or disqualification
Electricity Act 1992
Rules for writing down a temporary stop on someone's work
147J: Form of interim suspension or disqualification order
Electricity Act 1992
Cancelling a temporary stop from working as an electrician
147K: Revocation of interim suspension or disqualification
Electricity Act 1992
Board must quickly arrange a hearing after temporarily stopping someone from working
147L: Board must take reasonable steps to hold hearing as soon as practicable if it makes interim suspension or disqualification order
Electricity Act 1992
The Board can punish electricians who do something wrong
147M: Disciplinary powers of Board
Electricity Act 1992
The electricity board can stop or change someone's work right away to keep people safe
147P: Suspension, restriction, or disqualification may take effect immediately
Electricity Act 1992
What happens if you're not allowed to do electrical work for a while
147Q: Effect of disqualification
Electricity Act 1992
What happens if you don't follow the Board's orders about exams or courses
147R: Consequences of failure to comply with order to pass examination, complete competence programme, or attend course of instruction
Electricity Act 1992
Helper can be chosen for investigator
147V: Appointment of persons to assist investigator
Electricity Act 1992
You can ask a court to review decisions about your electrical work qualifications
147ZA: Appeals
Electricity Act 1992
How the Board and others can send you important papers
156B: Notice and service of documents by Board, member, Registrar, or investigator
Electricity Act 1992
You must follow the rules of your electrical work licence or face a fine
163A: Offence to fail to comply with condition of employer licence
Electricity Act 1992
Things you can't do with electricity and what happens if you break the rules
163D: Other offences
Building Act 2004
Licensing building practitioners helps check and record their skills, and allows them to do or watch over special building jobs.
282A: Purposes of licensing building practitioners
Building Act 2004
Only special workers with special licenses can do or watch over certain types of building work.
84: Licensed building practitioner must carry out or supervise restricted building work
Building Act 2004
You can get in trouble if you do special building work without the right licence or supervision.
85: Offences relating to carrying out or supervising restricted building work
Building Act 2004
It's against the law to hire someone who isn't properly licensed to do or oversee special building jobs.
86: Offence to engage another person to carry out or supervise restricted building work if person is not licensed building practitioner
Building Act 2004
Only authorised people can do building consent jobs or they might get a big fine.
199: Offence to perform functions of building consent authority if not authorised
Building Act 2004
The boss must give a special card to workers who can go into buildings for their job.
206: Chief executive must supply warrant
Building Act 2004
Different types of building workers that need special permission to do their job
Building Act 2004
This explains what you need to do to get a special building worker card.
286: Entitlement to be licensed
Building Act 2004
The person in charge decides if you can become a licensed builder and tells you what happens next.
288: Registrar to license applicant or decline application
Building Act 2004
People with certain jobs can automatically get a licence without applying or paying fees.
291: Automatic licensing of people registered under other enactments
Building Act 2004
People who build things must keep following the rules to stay allowed to work.
292: Licensed building practitioner must meet applicable minimum standards for licensing to continue
Building Act 2004
If a builder doesn't meet the rules, their licence can be taken away or cancelled.
293: Consequences of failure to meet applicable minimum standards for licensing
Building Act 2004
The Registrar must remove someone's name from the list when their permission to do something is taken away.
294: Cancellation of licensing
Building Act 2004
When someone doesn't follow the rules, the government can stop them from working in their job for a while.
295: Mandatory licensing suspension
Building Act 2004
A builder can ask to pause their work permit for a while and then ask to start it up again later.
296: Voluntary licensing suspension
Building Act 2004
The register helps people find and learn about licensed building workers, and assists officials with their duties.
299: Purpose of register
Building Act 2004
You must tell the Registrar if anything changes about you or your work
302: Obligation to notify Registrar of change in circumstances
Building Act 2004
Every year, the person in charge checks if builders want to keep their special work permission and if their information is correct.
303: Registrar must contact licensed building practitioners on annual basis
Building Act 2004
The Registrar can fix mistakes or update information in the list of licensed building workers.
304: Alterations to register
Building Act 2004
The Registrar's signed paper is trusted as true proof about building workers, unless someone can show it's wrong.
313: Certificate of Registrar to be conclusive evidence
Building Act 2004
Reasons why builders can get in trouble with the law for doing bad or wrong things when building
317: Grounds for discipline of licensed building practitioners
Building Act 2004
The Board can punish someone who breaks the rules by taking away their licence, stopping them from working, or making them pay money.
318: Disciplinary penalties
Building Act 2004
If you don't pay your fines on time, you might lose your license or have it taken away for a while.
319: Non-payment of fines or costs
Building Act 2004
The Board can still take action against someone even if they are no longer a licensed builder.
328: Enforcement of actions
Building Act 2004
You can ask someone to check decisions about your building license if you think they're not fair.
330: Right of appeal
Building Act 2004
The Board oversees and manages rules, complaints, appeals, and reviews for licensed building practitioners.
343: Board's functions
Building Act 2004
Rules for choosing people to be on a special group that helps make decisions
345: Criteria for appointment
Building Act 2004
Rules that say what builders need to know and do to get and keep their special work permits
353: Rules relating to licensed building practitioners
Building Act 2004
Explaining what counts as having an interest in a building or land for legal purposes
90C: Meaning of relevant interest
Building Act 2004
Rules about how builders should behave properly at work can be made by important people in the government.
314A: Code of ethics for licensed building practitioners
Building Act 2004
What an independently qualified person must do to honestly check and maintain building systems
108A: Duties of independently qualified person
Building Act 2004
The boss checks if someone did something wrong and decides what to do next
272ZE: Investigation following urgent suspension
Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994
Old laws about health jobs and workers in New Zealand
Schedule 1: Former health registration enactments
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
Things the Registrar checks when deciding if you can be an immigration adviser
17: Other matters relevant to fitness for licensing
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
How to get a licence to work as an immigration adviser
19: Granting of licence
Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007
How long your immigration adviser licence lasts
22: Duration of licence
Land Transport Act 1998
Rules for deciding if someone can work in transport to keep people safe
30C: General safety criteria
Land Transport Act 1998
Rules for deciding if someone can run a big bus or taxi service
30E: Additional criteria for large passenger service
Land Transport Act 1998
This law explains who needs to follow special driving rules at work
30ZB: Application of subpart
Land Transport Act 1998
You can't teach driving for money without a special licence
33A: Offence to operate as driving instructor without authorisation
Land Transport Act 1998
Emergency stop for unsafe drivers, instructors, or testers to keep people safe
87D: Immediate suspension of transport service driver and other persons in interests of public safety
Land Transport Act 1998
Rules about getting special papers for transport jobs and activities
159: Rules concerning land transport documents
Children’s Act 2014
What is a specified organisation that works with children?
24: Specified organisation defined
Children’s Act 2014
Some people can still work with children even if they've done something wrong, if it's safe for kids.
35: Exemption for certain individuals
Children’s Act 2014
When the boss can take away a special permission to work with children
37: Revocation of exemption
Children’s Act 2014
Telling bosses about checks on workers who care for kids
39: Requirement to provide information to chief executives
Auctioneers Act 2013
You need to be registered to work as an auctioneer
5: Registration of person carrying on business as auctioneer
Auctioneers Act 2013
How to apply to become an auctioneer
8: Application for registration to carry on business as auctioneer
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
It's illegal to pretend you're a health and safety medical practitioner
188: Offence to impersonate health and safety medical practitioner
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Special groups need permission to do certain jobs and can only do their assigned work
192: Role of designated agencies
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
What it means to have official permission to do something
203: Meaning of authorised
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
You need permission for certain work and can't do it without proper authorisation
206: Requirements for authorisation of work
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Rules for doing work that needs special skills or training
207: Requirements for prescribed qualifications or experience
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Checking if you're a suitable person to work in aviation
80: Fit and proper person test
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Rules for people who keep airports and air travel safe
136: Requirements for provider of aviation security services
Civil Aviation Act 2023
What happens to your aviation licence if a court takes it away from you
345: Effect of disqualification by court
Civil Aviation Act 2023
Getting a ban lifted from having an aviation licence
348: Removal of disqualification
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