✨ Electrical Wiremen Regulations
Certificates lost or damaged.
O. When any certificate or license has become damaged,
lost, or destroyed, a new certificate or license, as the case may
be, shall be issued on payment of the prescribed fee, provided
that the previous certificate or license has been returned to
the Board, or that it is proved to the satisfaction of the Board
that such previous certificate or license has been lost or
destroyed.
Wiremen's license to be carried and produced.
P. Every registered wireman or holder of a provisional
license shall carry his certificate or license with him whilst
engaged in any electrical-wiring work, and shall produce the
same whenever required to do so by the person for whom the
work is being performed, or by the occupier of the premises
on which the work is being performed, or by the Electrical
Engineer or Inspector of electrical wiring of the electrical-
supply authority concerned, or by any Inspecting Engineer
appointed by the Minister of Public Works.
Inspectors' licenses to be carried and produced.
Q. Every Inspector of electrical wiring shall carry his certificate with him when engaged in inspecting work, and shall
produce same when required to do so by the person for whom
the work is being performed, or by the occupier of the premises on which the work is being performed, or by any Inspecting Engineer appointed by the Minister of Public Works.
Pocket certificates.
R. For the purposes of clauses P and Q of this regulation,
the Board may from time to time issue pocket certificates
in accordance with Forms L and M in the First Schedule
hereto respectively, and certificates so issued shall be subject
to the provisions of clause O of this regulation and clauses E
and F of Regulation 5 and clause F of Regulation 7 hereof,
and it shall be a sufficient compliance with the provisions of
clauses P and Q of this regulation as regards registered wire-
men and Inspectors of electrical wiring if, in lieu of the
respective certificates therein referred to, a certificate issued
under this clause be carried and produced as therein required.
- EXAMINATION OF ELECTRICAL WIREMEN.
Time of examinations.
A. The Board shall from time to time, at intervals of not
less than three months or more than twelve months, hold,
at such convenient places as the Board may decide, examinations of candidates for registration as electrical wiremen under
section 8, subsection (1), paragraph (b), of the said Act.
Examination advertised.
B. The Board shall, by advertisement in such newspapers
published in New Zealand as it thinks fit, give due notice
of the dates and places at which such examinations will be
held.
Candidate to give notice.
C. Every candidate shall give notice in accordance with
Form N in the First Schedule hereto of his intention to
present himself for examination, and such notice, accompanied by the fee hereinafter prescribed, shall be sent so as
to reach the Registrar not less than twenty-eight days before
the date of the examination:
Provided that the Board may, if it thinks fit, on payment
of the sum of 5s. in addition to the prescribed fee, permit any
person who has not given the prescribed notice, but who has
given not less than three clear days’ notice, to present himself
for examination.
Subjects.
D. The subjects in which a candidate shall be examined
are those set out in the syllabus in the Second Schedule hereto
Examination in two parts.
E. (a.) The examination shall consist of two parts,
namely:-
(i.) A written examination.
(ii.) A practical test of workmanship in a workshop, or,
provided a provisional license has been issued, then
upon an actual electrical-wiring installation.
Practical test.
(b.) The material for the practical test, if conducted in a
workshop, shall be supplied by the Board, but each candidate shall provide his own tools, except stocks and dies,
pipe-vise, and soldering equipment, which will be provided by
the Board.
Written test.
(c.) The Board shall supply all writing material for the
written examination, but each candidate shall provide any
scales, rulers, or drawing-instruments necessary.
Papers, books, &c., forbidden.
(d.) No papers, books, memorandum, regulations, or note-
books, other than those supplied by the Board for the purpose,
shall be used, referred to, or produced in the examination-
room.
Any tools, scales, rulers, or drawing-instruments used
shall be openly displayed upon the desk or bench throughout
the examination.
Passing of examination.
(e.) The examination may be passed in two parts or as a
whole.
Examination certificate.
F. Every person passing an examination under the said
Act and these regulations shall be entitled, without payment
of any fee, to a certificate in accordance with Form O in the
First Schedule hereto.
Examiners.
G. The Board may from time to time appoint suitable
persons to be examiners and may fix and pay such remuneration to the examiners as the Board may think fit.
Supervisors.
H. The Board may make arrangements for the conduct of
examinations and may employ and pay supervisors and hire
examination-rooms.
Proof of identity.
J. The supervisor may require any candidate presenting
himself at an examination to furnish such proof of identity
as the supervisor may require.
Gazetting of names.
K. The names of the persons who have passed the written
examination or the practical test or both, shall be notified
by the Board by advertisement in the Gazette.
Candidate to be notified.
L. The Registrar shall in due course send by post to every
candidate a notification showing the maximum marks obtainable in every paper or subject taken by the candidate,
the marks awarded to the candidate in every such paper or
subject, and an intimation as to whether the candidate has
passed or has not passed the examination.
Information not to be given.
M. Except as aforesaid, no information of the result of any
examination shall be given by the Board to any person, and
no examiner shall disclose the result of any examination or
any matter connected therewith, except to the Board, or as
the Board may direct.
Place of examination.
N. The Board may make arrangements with any technical
school board or any other body for the conduct of examinations on behalf of the Board, and of all matters incidental
thereto.
- CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION.
Removal of name.
A. Every person whose name has been removed from the
register under section 13 of the said Act shall, wherever
possible, be notified by the Registrar to that effect.
To be gazetted.
B. The name of every person removed from the register
under section 13 of the said Act shall be published in the
Gazette, and the Board may, if it thinks fit, state the ground
of such removal.
Date of publication.
C. Such publication (except in the case of persons proved
to have died) shall not take place until after the time for appeal
under section 23 of the said Act (viz., three months) has
expired if no appeal is then pending, or, in case of an
appeal, then until after the decision of the Board of Appeal
has been given.
Proposal to remove.
D. Every person whose name is proposed to be removed
from the register under section 13 of the said Act shall,
wherever possible, be notified by the Registrar to that effect.
Certificates to be returned.
E. Every certificate of registration issued to any person
whose name is removed from the register as aforesaid shall
be returned to the Registrar within one month from the date
of the publication in the Gazette of the notification aforesaid.
Penalty.
F. Every such person who without just cause fails so to
return any such certificate shall be liable to a fine of £5.
- APPEAL AGAINST DECISION OF BOARD.
Date.
A. Every person who wishes to appeal under section 23
of the said Act against any decision of the Board shall do so
within three months after notice of such decision has been
communicated to him by the Registrar.
Form.
Such appeal shall be made by notice to the Board in accordance with Form P in the First Schedule hereto, and the
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Regulations under the Electrical Wiremen's Registration Act, 1925
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration8 May 1926
Electrical Wiremen, Registration, Regulations, Certificates, Licenses, Examinations