New Zealand Gazette – 2016 – No. 97

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✨ Plumbing Registration Notices



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 97 — 27 OCTOBER 2016

General Section

Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board (Plumbing Registration and Licensing) Notice 2016

Pursuant to sections 28 and 30 of the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006 ("Act"), the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board ("Board") designates the following classes of registration for sanitary plumbing and prescribes the following matters relating to plumbing registration and licensing.

Notice

  1. Title—This notice is the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board (Plumbing Registration and Licensing) Notice 2016.

  2. Commencement—This notice comes into force on 6 December 2016.

  3. Revocation—This notice revokes the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board (Plumbing Registration and Licensing) Notice 2010 (published in the New Zealand Gazette, 21 October 2010, No. 143, page 3611).

Part A - Certifying plumber

  1. Certifying plumber
    The Board designates the certifying plumber class of plumbing registration.

  2. Authorised work
    A certifying plumber who holds a current annual practising licence issued by the Board:

    (a) may carry out sanitary plumbing;

    (b) may supervise sanitary plumbing undertaken by the following people:

    (i) tradesmen plumbers;

    (ii) journeymen plumbers;

    (iii) holders of provisional licences to do or assist in doing sanitary plumbing pursuant to section 38 of the Act;

    (iv) trainee plumbers who hold limited certificates to do or assist in doing sanitary plumbing pursuant to section 14 of the Act (“Trainee Plumbers”); and

    (v) persons doing or assisting in doing sanitary plumbing pursuant to section 19 of the Act (“Exempt Persons”);

    (c) may test sanitary plumbing; and

    (d) must verify sanitary plumbing where verification is required.

  3. Minimum standards for registration

    Registration requirements

    (1) To be registered as a certifying plumber a person must have:

    (a) held a licence as a licensed or tradesman plumber (or registered plumber under the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 1976) for an aggregate period of not less than 24 months under the supervision of a certifying plumber (or a craftsman plumber under the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 1976), and passed the examination specified in paragraph 6(2) below; or

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

      (i) submitted a completed pre-registration application form to the Board that includes the following documentation:

     A. an international qualifications assessment report 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;

     B. unless the applicant has already been granted New Zealand residence, police certificates that are no older than six 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 requirements; and

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