Reprint as at 1 April 2010

Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 1976

Public Act	1976 No 69
Date of assent	7 December 1976

Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 1976: repealed, on 1 April 2010, by section 186(1) of the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006 (2006 No 74).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Health

Title

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Meaning of sanitary plumbing

4 Act to bind Crown

Part 1
Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board

5 Constitution of Board

6 Constitution of Board

6A Term of office

6B Vacation of office

7 Chairman of Board [Repealed]

8 Deputy Chairman of Board [Repealed]

9 Meetings of Board [Repealed]

10 Deputies of members [Repealed]

11 Functions and powers of Board

12 Committees and advisers [Repealed]

13 Registrar and other officers

Financial provisions

14 Fees and allowances

14A Board may prescribe fees

14B Disciplinary levy

14C Further provisions relating to fees and levy

15 Finance

16 Insurance of members of Board, etc

17 Unauthorised expenditure

18 Power to borrow money

18A Further provisions relating to Board in Schedule

19 Amendments to other enactments

Part 2
Registration of plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers

20 Registers

21 Qualifications for registration as craftsman plumber

22 Qualifications for registration as craftsman gasfitter

22A Qualifications for registration as gas inspector

23 Qualifications for registration as plumber

24 Qualifications for registration as gasfitter

25 Qualifications for registration as drainlayer

26 Persons qualified overseas

27 Refusal of registration

28 Applications for registration

29 Applications to be considered by Board

30 Registration, etc

31 Certificates of registration

32 Registered persons to notify change of address

33 Name may be removed from register if registered person or holder of limited certificate cannot be found, etc

34 Amendment of register if person wrongfully registered or if particulars incorrect

35 Amendment of register on change of name, and removal of name on request

Part 3
Licences and limited certificates

36 Registered persons to have licences

36A Annual licence for gasfitters and gas inspectors

36B Applications for licence for gasfitters and gas inspectors

36C Board to consider applications

36D Regulations may prescribe conditions for issue of licences to gasfitters and gas inspectors

36E Currency of licences for gasfitters and gas inspectors

37 Provisional licences

38 Unregistered persons to have limited certificates

39 Further provisions as to limited certificates

Employer licences

39A Employer licence

39B Duration and renewal of licence

39C Revocation of licence

39D Revocation, etc, of conditions

39E Powers of inspection

Part 4
Disciplinary provisions

40 Appointment of investigators

41 Complaints against registered persons or tradespersons

42 Disciplinary powers of Board

43 Procedure

44 Appointment of legal assessor

45 Board may require witnesses to attend and give evidence

46 Immunity of witnesses and counsel

47 Witnesses' expenses

48 Power to adjourn and postpone

49 Application of disciplinary provisions to holders of limited certificates

Part 5
Offences and legal proceedings

50 Offences

50A Offence to contravene condition of employer licence

51 Onus of proof

52 Time for laying information

Part 6
Provisions relating to exemptions

53 Exemption in respect of fixing of water heaters by gasfitters

54 Exemption for householders

55 Exemption of areas in rural districts

56 Provisions relating to alteration of boundaries of local authority districts

56A Exemption in respect of sanitary plumbing

57 Exemptions in respect of gasfitting

Part 7
Appeals to High Court

58 Matters on which appeals lie

59 Decisions of Court in respect of appeals under this Part

60 Procedure on appeal

61 Decision of committee of Board deemed to be decision of Board

Part 8
Miscellaneous provisions

62 Exclusion of liability

63 Application of Act in relation to local authorities

64 Reciprocity

65 Extension of application of Act

66 Regulations

67 Transitional

68 Repeals, revocations, and saving

Schedule
Provisions applying in respect of Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board

Reprint notes

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the registration of plumbers and gasfitters, and to make provision for the registration of drainlayers

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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