Electricity Act 1992

85 Board may prescribe other registration and licensing matters

• (1) The Board may, by notice in the Gazette,—

  • (a) prescribe for each class of registration the minimum standards for registration (including standards relating to required competence, qualifications, and experience) that persons must meet in order to be registered as registered persons and to be issued with practising licences; and

  • (b) prescribe for each class of registration the terms and conditions subject to which persons are registered as registered persons; and

  • (c) prescribe for each class of registration the terms and conditions subject to which practising licences are issued; and

  • (d) prescribe requirements relating to the completion of competence programmes in respect of persons who—

    • (i) apply for practising licences or provisional licences; or

    • (ii) hold practising licences or provisional licences; or

    • (iii) apply for renewals of practising licences or provisional licences; and

  • (e) prescribe requirements relating to competent and safe work practices and the testing of those practices; and

  • (f) recognise any overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence as satisfying a particular minimum standard for registration (in whole or in part) if, in the opinion of the Board, that overseas qualification, certificate, registration, or licence is equivalent to, or as satisfactory as, the standard, or part of the standard, that is treated as being satisfied.

  (2) The terms and conditions referred to in subsection (1)(c) may include, for example,—

  • (a) a term that authorises the person to test or certify work or to supervise work:

  • (b) a condition that requires compliance with the requirements referred to in subsection (1)(e):

  • (c) a condition that requires the person to complete a competence programme:

  • (d) a condition that imposes limitations on the circumstances in which the person may do, or assist in doing, work:

  • (e) a condition that imposes limits on the work that the person may do, or assist in doing, under the practising licence.

  (3) The Board may make arrangements with the appropriate authorities controlling the registration, licensing, or recognition of electrical workers outside New Zealand for the reciprocal recognition of registration, licences, certificates, or other evidence of proficiency in electrical work.

  Section 85: substituted, on 1 April 2010, by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).