NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 97 — 27 OCTOBER 2016

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

(a) held a licence as a licensed or tradesman gasfitter (or registered gasfitter under the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 1976) for an aggregate period of not less than 24 months under the supervision of a certifying gasfitter (or a craftsman gasfitter 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 gasfitting 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 gasfitting 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

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

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

Certifying gasfitter competencies

(2) The examination a person must pass in order to register as a certifying gasfitter is Examination 9196 set by the Board.

(3) Examination 9196 will be set by the Board so that, in order to pass the examination, the applicant must demonstrate the ability to design, manage the installation of, and verify/certify gasfitting systems through possessing competencies in the areas of:

(a) Trade calculations and trade science used in the design and installation of gasfitting systems. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

(i) estimation, measurement, and calculation using management systems;

(ii) application of formulae;

(iii) physics laws and their application as they relate to gasfitting;

(iv) hydraulic principles;

(v) combustion and ventilation;

(vi) flame characteristics;

(vii) flammability limits;

(viii) gas rating;

(ix) heat input/output and efficiency calculations;

(x) expansion and contraction;

(xi) corrosion;

(xii) fluing;

(xiii) pipe size;

(xiv) fluid flow;

(xv) pressure; and

(xvi) volume.

(b) The drawings and specifications for gasfitting. Descriptors include, but are not limited to, the preparation of plans and specifications.

(c) The selection of materials, their properties, applications, and how they are used in the design and specification of gasfitting systems. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

(i) compatibility, testing, and commissioning procedures; and

(ii) alternative materials, approval regimes, and protection of material.

(d) The design, specification and verification/certification of gasfitting installations and system components. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:

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