Plumbing Registration and Licensing Notice




NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 97 — 27 OCTOBER 2016

(i) Acts and regulations;

(ii) standards;

(iii) codes; and

(iv) manufacturers’ instructions.

(g) Management of the effect on the integrity of structures relating to the design and installation of sanitary plumbing systems, including weather tightness considerations as they relate to penetrations to the building envelope and the coordination with other services. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

(i) preservation of structural integrity;

(ii) prevention of damage to property including weather tightness; and

(iii) positioning and protection of services along with the coordination with other building services.

(h) Responsibilities relating to managing health and safety. Descriptors include, but are not limited to, health and safety systems, and the preparation of safety plans.

(i) Responsibilities relating to the supervision of persons who do, or assist in doing, sanitary plumbing.

Transitional provisions

(4) Any person who, at 4 July 2013, had passed Examination 9195 but has not passed the certifying common Examination 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 focused on assessing the competencies previously covered in Examination 9194, as directed by the Registrar, before that person will be considered to meet the minimum standards for registration as a certifying plumber.

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

7. Terms and conditions of registration

(1) A certifying plumber must pay any monies owing to the Board as they become due, subject to any exceptions agreed to by the Board.

(2) A certifying plumber must provide the Board with all information required for the public register.

8. Terms and conditions of licence

Continuing professional development

(1) For the purposes of paragraph (2) below:

Approved continuing professional development course means a course of training of up to six hours duration on continuing professional development topics as set out on the Board’s website and delivered by an approved provider either in person or online.

Approved provider means a provider approved by the Board to deliver an approved continuing professional development course and notified on the Board’s website.

(2) To be eligible to renew their annual practising licence, all certifying plumbers applying to renew their licence for the licensing years beginning on 1 April 2017 and beyond must satisfy the Registrar that they have completed any approved continuing professional development course that has been notified as applying in the 12 month period prior to renewal.

Authorisation card

(3) All certifying plumbers that hold a current annual practising licence are issued with an authorisation card by the Board.

(4) At all times when undertaking sanitary plumbing, a certifying plumber must be able to produce their authorisation card on demand.

Supervision

(5) A certifying plumber must pay the prescribed fee for, and notify the Board of the name, address and telephone number of, every Exempt Person working under their supervision.

(6) A certifying plumber must notify the Board in writing if their supervision of any person ceases.

(7) A certifying plumber remains responsible for all sanitary plumbing undertaken by a person under their supervision until the Board has received written notification from them that they are no longer supervising that person.

(8) A certifying plumber must ensure that sanitary plumbing undertaken by persons under their supervision:

(a) is performed competently;



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Registration, Licensing, Plumbing, Sanitary Plumbing, Certifying Plumber, Gasfitters, Drainlayers, Examination, Competencies, Transitional Provisions, Terms and Conditions, Continuing Professional Development, Authorisation Card, Supervision