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Job licenses

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Weights and Measures Act 1987

What inspectors need to know about their job certificates

27: Certificates of appointment

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Weights and Measures Act 1987

How long accreditation lasts and how to renew it

30C: Duration and renewal of accreditation

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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

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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

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Civil Aviation Act 1990

You might need special papers to do things in flying

7: Requirement for aviation document

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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Rules for deciding if someone can work in aviation

10: Criteria for fit and proper person test

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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Rules for getting a doctor's check before you can fly a plane

27D: Medical examination, report, and disclosure

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Civil Aviation Act 1990

You can get in trouble for doing aviation work without the right papers

46: Acting without necessary aviation document

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Resource Management Act 1991

Getting a special badge to show you are qualified for a job

39A: Accreditation

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules about who can do electrical work and when special permission is needed

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Trainees can do some electrical work while learning to be an electrician

77: Exemption for trainees

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Electricity Act 1992

Board can give special certificates for specific purposes

78: Board may issue limited certificate for purposes of section 77

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for becoming an electrician and keeping your work permit

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for dealing with complaints about people who work with electricity

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Electricity Act 1992

How long an employer's electricity licence lasts

118: Duration of employer licence

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Electricity Act 1992

How to renew your employer licence

119: Renewal of employer licence

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Electricity Act 1992

Board listens to employer's side before making decisions

121: Board must give employer licence holder reasonable opportunity to be heard

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board keeps a list of all electrical workers

124: Register of electrical workers

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Electricity Act 1992

Registrar writes down important information about electrical workers and companies

125: Registrar must enter matters in register

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Electricity Act 1992

The register helps people find and check information about electricians and electrical workers

126: Purpose of register

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Electricity Act 1992

How the electrical workers register is kept and accessed

127: Form of register

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Electricity Act 1992

What important information about electrical workers is kept in a special list?

128: Matters to be contained in register

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Let the Registrar know if you move house within 3 months

130: Duty to notify change of address

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Electricity Act 1992

Tell the Registrar if you change your name

131: Duty to notify change of name

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Electricity Act 1992

Checking and updating the list of people with electrical licenses

132: Revision of register

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Electricity Act 1992

Getting your electrician's registration or licence back after it was cancelled

133: Restoration of registration or licence

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

The Registrar can update or fix information in the register

135: Alterations to register

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Electricity Act 1992

The public can see and get copies of the list of electrical workers and employers

136: Register to be public

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Electricity Act 1992

Keeping some information about electrical workers private

137: Restricting public access to information and documents on register

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Electricity Act 1992

You can look at the list of electrical workers if you follow the rules

138: Search of register

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Electricity Act 1992

Who this part of the law is for and when it matters

142: Persons to whom this Part applies

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Electricity Act 1992

Things electrical workers can get in trouble for

143: Disciplinary offence

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Electricity Act 1992

How the Electrical Workers Registration Board is set up and what it does

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Electricity Act 1992

There's a special group that looks after electrical workers

148: Electrical Workers Registration Board

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board's job is to keep electrical work safe and fair in New Zealand

149: Functions of Board

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Electricity Act 1992

Who can be part of the Electrical Workers Registration Board and how they are chosen

150: Membership

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board must have a Registrar who can also do other jobs

151: Registrar

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Electricity Act 1992

Telling lies or giving wrong information to get registered is not allowed

160: False declarations and representations

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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

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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

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Special certificate needed for electrical work in building projects

179: Certificate of compliance where prescribed electrical work covered by building consent

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for handling unfinished investigations and punishments from old electrical laws

182: Transitional provisions relating to proceedings, etc

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

List of old electricity rules that are no longer used

Schedule 5: Regulations and orders revoked

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Electricity Act 1992

Different types of electrical worker registration

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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

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for becoming a registered electrician

86: Minimum standards for registration

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board must ask for opinions before making important rules about electrical workers

88: Board must consult before making notices

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Electricity Act 1992

Who can become registered as an electrician

91: Entitlement to registration

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Electricity Act 1992

How to apply to be registered as an electrical worker

92: Applications for registration

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

How long a temporary electrician's license lasts and when it can end

94: Duration of provisional licence

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board checks your application to become a registered electrician

95: Board to consider application

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Electricity Act 1992

Board decides if you can be an electrical worker

96: Board to register applicant or decline application

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules you must follow when you become a registered electrical worker

97: Registration subject to terms and conditions

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Electricity Act 1992

You need a special licence to do electrical work

98: Practising licence required

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Electricity Act 1992

How to get a licence to do electrical work

99: Entitlement to practising licence

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Electricity Act 1992

How to apply for a licence to work as an electrician

100: Applications for practising licence

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board must review your application quickly and fairly

101: Board to consider application

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Electricity Act 1992

Board checks if you can get a work permit for electrical jobs

102: Board to issue practising licence or decline application

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Electricity Act 1992

A practising licence comes with rules you must follow

103: Practising licence subject to terms and conditions

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Electricity Act 1992

How long a practising licence lasts and when it can end

104: Duration of practising licence

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Electricity Act 1992

How to ask for a new work licence before your old one runs out

105: Applications for renewal of practising licence

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Electricity Act 1992

How to get your practising licence renewed

106: Renewal of practising licence

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for special training programs to check or improve electrical workers' skills

108: Competence programmes

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Electricity Act 1992

What happens if you don't pass a test for your electrician licence

109: Unsatisfactory results of competence programme

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board can cancel or pause your work permission for different reasons

110: Cancellation and suspension generally

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Electricity Act 1992

What happens when your electrical work permission is put on hold

111: Effect of suspension

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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

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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

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Explaining how businesses can get permission to have workers do electrical jobs

115: Employer licence

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Electricity Act 1992

Steps to get signed up as an electrical worker

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Electricity Act 1992

How to get permission to work with electricity

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Electricity Act 1992

How long a practising licence lasts and how to get it again

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules about who can do electrical work and how they show they're good at it

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules about stopping or pausing someone's permission to do electrical work

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for dealing with complaints about people who work with electricity

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules about looking into problems with electricians

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Electricity Act 1992

What an investigator must do with their special permission paper

147B: Duties of investigator supplied with warrant of authority

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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

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Temporary stop on electricians working while safety concerns are checked

147I: Interim suspension or disqualification

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Electricity Act 1992

Rules for writing down a temporary stop on someone's work

147J: Form of interim suspension or disqualification order

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Electricity Act 1992

Cancelling a temporary stop from working as an electrician

147K: Revocation of interim suspension or disqualification

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

The Board can punish electricians who do something wrong

147M: Disciplinary powers of Board

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

What happens if you're not allowed to do electrical work for a while

147Q: Effect of disqualification

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Helper can be chosen for investigator

147V: Appointment of persons to assist investigator

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Electricity Act 1992

You can ask a court to review decisions about your electrical work qualifications

147ZA: Appeals

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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

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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

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Electricity Act 1992

Things you can't do with electricity and what happens if you break the rules

163D: Other offences

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Building Act 2004

Different types of building workers that need special permission to do their job

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Building Act 2004

The steps to get a license for working on buildings

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Building Act 2004

This explains what you need to do to get a special building worker card.

286: Entitlement to be licensed

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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

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Building Act 2004

Rules about who can get permission to work as a builder

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Building Act 2004

Some jobs get building licenses without needing to apply

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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

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Building Act 2004

Keeping a builder's permission to work

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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

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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

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Building Act 2004

Rules about taking away or stopping a builder's permission to work

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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

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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

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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

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Building Act 2004

The register helps people find and learn about licensed building workers, and assists officials with their duties.

299: Purpose of register

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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

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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

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Building Act 2004

The Registrar can fix mistakes or update information in the list of licensed building workers.

304: Alterations to register

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Building Act 2004

How to look for information about building workers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Building Act 2004

The Board can still take action against someone even if they are no longer a licensed builder.

328: Enforcement of actions

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Building Act 2004

You can challenge decisions made about building workers

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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

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Building Act 2004

Setting up a group to oversee building workers

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Building Act 2004

The Board oversees and manages rules, complaints, appeals, and reviews for licensed building practitioners.

343: Board's functions

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Building Act 2004

Rules for choosing people to be on a special group that helps make decisions

345: Criteria for appointment

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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

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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

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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

How to get a licence to work as an immigration adviser

19: Granting of licence

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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

How long your immigration adviser licence lasts

22: Duration of licence

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Land Transport Act 1998

Rules for deciding if someone can work in transport to keep people safe

30C: General safety criteria

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Land Transport Act 1998

Rules for deciding if someone can run a big bus or taxi service

30E: Additional criteria for large passenger service

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Land Transport Act 1998

This law explains who needs to follow special driving rules at work

30ZB: Application of subpart

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Land Transport Act 1998

You can't teach driving for money without a special licence

33A: Offence to operate as driving instructor without authorisation

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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

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Land Transport Act 1998

Rules about getting special papers for transport jobs and activities

159: Rules concerning land transport documents

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Building Act 2004

Explaining what counts as having an interest in a building or land for legal purposes

90C: Meaning of relevant interest

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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

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Auctioneers Act 2013

You need to be registered to work as an auctioneer

5: Registration of person carrying on business as auctioneer

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Auctioneers Act 2013

How to apply to become an auctioneer

8: Application for registration to carry on business as auctioneer

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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Doctors who help keep people safe and healthy at work

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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

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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

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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

What it means to have official permission to do something

203: Meaning of authorised

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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

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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Rules for doing work that needs special skills or training

207: Requirements for prescribed qualifications or experience

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Building Act 2004

What an independently qualified person must do to honestly check and maintain building systems

108A: Duties of independently qualified person

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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

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Building Act 2004

The boss checks if someone did something wrong and decides what to do next

272ZE: Investigation following urgent suspension

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