Registration and Licensing
Proposal
- To remove regulations related to the registration and licensing of electrical workers as they are now the responsibility of the Electrical Workers Registration Board.
The 2006 amendment to the Electricity Act introduced a new system for registering and licensing workers and for employer licences, with the Electrical Workers Registration Board (EWRB) having full responsibility for licensing matters.
Accordingly, licensing will no longer be covered by the regulations and the current Regulations 4 to 16 will not be carried forward to the new electricity safety regulations.
The EWRB will continue to licence people for certain classes. It will designate the classes of registration and will specify what kind of work may be carried out by a person who holds that class. The EWRB will also be able to impose limitations on the circumstances in which a licensed person may do that work.
The EWRB will, by notice in the Gazette, prescribe the minimum standards and conditions for each class, competency requirements (including competency programmes), and can recognise overseas qualifications. The EWRB also controls how to become registered, the issuing of the registration, specifies terms and conditions as well as exemptions to those terms and conditions. A registered worker cannot do prescribed electrical work if they do not have a current practicing licence. The EWRB can also suspend or cancel a registration, licence or provisional licence.
The EWRB has responsibility for:
- Examinations
- Courses that will need to be undertaken to maintain competency
- Certificates, including conditions and replacements
- Acceptability of persons qualified overseas
- Requirements for employer licences
It is proposed that safety tuition for electrical workers will remain in the regulations as some people covered by safety tuition, e.g. trainees and persons who may assist (such as labourers), are not covered by the EWRB.
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