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Electricity Act 1992

Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences - Employer licences

117: Prescribed electrical work may be done under employer licence

You could also call this:

“Employer licences let workers do special electrical jobs”

If you have an employer licence, you can allow your employees to do prescribed electrical work or help with it. This permission is enough for your employees to do this work or assist with it.

When you give this permission to your employees, it’s called “authorising” them. The employer licence lets you authorise any of your employees.

Remember, there are rules about how you can use an employer licence. These rules are set out in section 115 of this law and in other regulations. You must follow these rules when you use your employer licence.

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Part 10 Registration and licensing of electrical workers and employer licences
Employer licences

117Prescribed electrical work may be done under employer licence

  1. An employer licence authorises the licence holder to authorise any employee of that person to do, or assist in doing, any prescribed electrical work.

  2. Any authority given under an employer licence to any person to do, or assist in doing, any prescribed electrical work is sufficient authority for the person so authorised to do or, as the case may be, assist in doing that work.

  3. This section is subject to the terms and conditions imposed under section 115 and to any regulations.

Notes
  • Section 117: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
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