5 JUNE 2013 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 71 1887

"(b) where applying on the basis of an overseas plumbing qualification:

(i) submitted a completed registration application to the board that includes the following documentation:

A. an international qualifications assessment from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority concluding that the applicant’s plumbing qualification is equivalent to or greater than level 4 on the National Qualifications Framework; and

B. unless the applicant has already been granted New Zealand residence, police certificates that are no older than 6 months from the applicant’s country of citizenship (unless they can provide satisfactory evidence they have never lived there), and from any country the applicant has lived in for 12 months or more (whether in one visit or intermittently) in the last 10 years, that the board assesses as meeting its fit and proper person registration requirements; and

C. evidence that the applicant has worked full-time in the plumbing trade for 6 years or more; and

(ii) passed the board’s advanced proficiency assessment (this practical assessment must be undertaken in New Zealand)."

(3) Revoke paragraph 2(1)(c).

Paragraph 2(2) amended

(4) In paragraph 2(2) in the Schedule, replace "and the certifying common examination, referred to above, will be set by the board so that to pass the examinations" with ", referred to above, will be set by the board so that to pass the examination".

New subparagraph inserted

(5) After paragraph 2(2) in the Schedule, insert:

"Transitional provisions

(3) Any person who, at 4 July 2013, has passed the certifying plumber examination (reference 9195) set by the board, but has not passed the certifying common examination (reference 9194) that a person was required to pass from 1 April 2010 to 3 July 2013, is required to successfully complete one or more competence programmes focussed on assessing the competencies previously covered in the certifying common examination (reference 9194), as directed by the Registrar, before that person will be considered to meet the minimum standards for registration as a certifying plumber.

(4) Any person who, at 4 July 2013, has passed the certifying common examination (reference 9194) that a person was required to pass from 1 April 2010 to 3 July 2013, but not the certifying plumber examination (reference 9195) set by the board, is required to pass the certifying plumber examination (reference 9195) set by the board before that person will be considered to meet the minimum standards for registration as a certifying plumber."

Paragraph 7(1)(e) amended

(6) Replace paragraph 7(1)(e) in the Schedule with:

"(e) where the person is applying on the basis of an overseas plumbing qualification:

(i) submitted a completed registration application to the board that includes the following documentation:

A. an international qualifications assessment from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority concluding that the applicant’s plumbing qualification is equivalent to or greater than level 4 on the National Qualifications Framework; and

B. unless the applicant has already been granted New Zealand residence, police certificates that are no older than 6 months from the applicant’s country of citizenship (unless they can provide satisfactory evidence they have never lived there), and from any country the applicant has lived in for 12 months or more (whether in one visit or intermittently) in the last 10 years, that the board assesses as meeting its fit and proper person registration requirements; and

C. evidence that the applicant has worked full-time in the plumbing trade for 4 years or more; and