Plumbers Registration Amendment Act 1950

Public Act		1950 No 15
Date of assent		4 September 1950

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Regulations to prescribe fees for examination and registration.
3	Name may be removed from register if plumber cannot be found, &c.

An Act to Amend the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.

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

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Plumbers Registration Amendment Act, 1950, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Regulations to prescribe fees for examination and registration.

Section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b), and substituting the following paragraph:—

“(b)

The fees payable in respect of examination and re-examination, and in respect of registration, certificates of registration, and the restoration of any name to the register;”.

3 Name may be removed from register if plumber cannot be found, &c.

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section twenty, the following section:—

“20a

“(1)

The Director-General of Health may at any time, and shall if the Board so directs, send to any registered plumber, by registered letter addressed to him at his address as appearing on the register, an inquiry as to whether or not he desires to have his name retained on the register.

“(2)

If no reply is received to that letter within three months from the posting thereof, or if the letter is not delivered and is returned to the Director-General of Health, the Director-General shall, if the Board so directs, remove from the register the name of the plumber to whom the letter was sent.

“(3)

If any registered plumber applies to the Director-General of Health to have his name removed from the register, the Director-General shall, if the Board so directs, remove the name from the register accordingly.

“(4)

Any person whose name has been removed from the register in pursuance of this section may apply to the Director-General of Health to have his name restored to the register, and on payment of the prescribed fee his name shall be restored to the register accordingly.”

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