✨ Drainlaying Registration Requirements
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 97 — 27 OCTOBER 2016
(b) may physically supervise, as a Nominated Person, drainlaying undertaken by a person under supervision; and
(c) may test drainlaying.
11. Minimum standards for registration
Registration requirements
(1) To become a tradesman drainlayer, a person must have:
(a) obtained the National Certificate in drainlaying and passed the examination specified in paragraph 11(2) below; or
(b) where the person is applying on the basis of an overseas drainlaying 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 drainlaying 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 registration requirements; and
C. evidence that the applicant has worked full-time in the drainlaying trade for four years or more; and
(ii) passed the examination specified in paragraph 11(2) below, which they may sit in their home country by arrangement with the Board.
Tradesman drainlayer competencies
(2) The examination a person must pass in order to register as a tradesman drainlayer is Examination 9197 set by the Board.
(3) Examination 9197 is set by the Board so that, in order to pass the examination, the applicant must demonstrate knowledge, and the experience and practical ability to install, test, commission, fault-find, and maintain drainage systems through possessing competencies in the areas of:
(a) Trade calculations and trade sciences. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:
(i) estimation, measurement, and calculation using measurement systems;
(ii) application of formulae;
(iii) laws of physics and their application as they relate to drainlaying;
(iv) hydraulic principles;
(v) expansion and contraction;
(vi) corrosion protection; and
(vii) water quality (black, grey, recycled and potable).
(b) The installation, testing, commissioning, fault-finding, and maintenance of foul water and stormwater systems for drainlaying. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:
(i) foul water systems;
(ii) stormwater systems;
(iii) trade waste systems;
(iv) on-site effluent disposal systems; and
(v) on-site wastewater treatment systems.
(c) Limitations in and the application of materials used in drainlaying, including material protection and jointing methods. Descriptors include, but are not limited to:
(i) copper;
(ii) polyvinylchloride (PVC);
(iii) asbestos;
(iv) polyethylene (PE);
(v) stainless steel;
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