Plumbers and Gasfitters Registration Amendment Act 1967
Plumbers and Gasfitters Registration Amendment Act 1967
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Plumbers and Gasfitters Registration Amendment Act 1967
Plumbers and Gasfitters Registration Amendment Act 1967
Public Act |
1967 No 22 |
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Date of assent |
5 September 1967 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Plumbers and Gasfitters Registration Act 1964
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 and Gasfitters Registration Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Registration Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Definition of “sanitary plumbing”
Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding, as subsection (2), the following subsection:
“(2)
Notwithstanding the definition of ‘sanitary plumbing’ in subsection (1) of this section, the work of fixing or unfixing any pipe in any premises (other than a building) taken or otherwise acquired under the Public Works Act 1928, or any corresponding former Act, or to which subsection (4) of section 167 of the Land Act 1948 applies, or which is a public reserve within the meaning of the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, shall not be sanitary plumbing.”
3 Plumbers and Gasfitters Board
(1)
Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (g), (h), and (i) of subsection (2), and substituting the following paragraphs:
“(g)
One person to be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Gas Association of New Zealand, Incorporated:
“(h)
Two persons, each being a member of an association affiliated to the New Zealand Society of Master Plumbers Incorporated, to be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of that Society,
“(i)
Two persons, each being a member of the New Zealand Plumbers, Gasfitters and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers, to be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of that Union.”
(2)
Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsections (3) and (4), and substituting the following subsections:
“(3)
With respect to the members appointed by the Minister under subsection (2) of this section the following provisions shall apply—
“(a)
The members so appointed shall (except as otherwise provided in this section) hold office for a term of three years, but may from time to time be reappointed:
“(b)
If any such member dies, or by writing addressed to the Chairman resigns his office, or fails without the consent of the Board to attend four consecutive meetings of the Board, or is removed from office pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subsection, his office shall become vacant, and the vacancy so created shall be filled in the manner in which the appointment to the vacant office was originally made. Every person so appointed shall be appointed for the residue of the term for which his predecessor was appointed:
“(c)
Any such member may at any time be removed from office by the Minister for disability, bankruptcy, neglect of duty, or misconduct, proved to the satisfaction of the Minister.
“(4)
Unless he sooner vacates his office as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (3) of this section, every person appointed by the Minister under subsection (2) of this section to be a member of the Board shall continue in office until his successor comes into office, notwithstanding that the term for which he was appointed may have expired.”
(3)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section, every member of the Board in office immediately before the commencement of this Act and appointed or elected under any of the provisions of paragraph (g), (h), and (i) of subsection (2) of section 4 of the principal Act, as repealed by subsection (1) of this section, shall be deemed to have been duly appointed under the corresponding provision of paragraphs (g), (h), and (i) of subsection (2) of section 4 of the principal Act, as substituted by subsection (1) of this section.
(4)
The term of office of every person deemed by subsection (3) of this section to have been appointed to the Board, shall expire on the date on which, but for the passing of this Act, his term would have expired under the provisions of the principal Act.
4 Functions and powers of the Board
Section 7 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (d) of subsection (2), and substituting the following paragraph:
“(d)
Charge such fees as the Minister approves for entry for any examination.”
5 Fees and travelling allowances
Section 8 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “or allowances”
, the words “and travelling allowances”
.
6 Reciprocity
Section 42 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)
The Board may from time to time make arrangements with the appropriate authorities in any Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland for the reciprocal recognition of certificates and registration.”
7 Regulations
Section 43 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (h) and (i).
8 Revocation
The Plumbers and Gasfitters (Appointments and Elections) Regulations 1965 are hereby revoked.
This Act is administered in the Department of Health.
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