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Electricity Act 1992

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

116: Requirements treated as satisfied if person obtains certification from approved person

You could also call this:

“You can prove you're following electrical safety rules by getting a certificate from an approved expert”

If you want to show that you’re following the rules about how to operate safely with electricity, you can get help from a special person. This person is called an ‘approved person’. They can check your system and give you a certificate if it’s done right.

The certificate shows that you’re doing things the right way, just like the law says you should in section 115. But this certificate doesn’t last forever. It can stop being useful if the approved person takes it back by writing to you, or if the certificate reaches its end date.

You might be wondering who these ‘approved persons’ are. Well, they’re either people that the rules say are approved, or they belong to a group of people that the rules say are approved. The government decides who these people are.

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116Requirements treated as satisfied if person obtains certification from approved person

  1. A person must be treated as maintaining a system of operation described in section 115(1)(a) and (b) if an approved person, in the prescribed manner, certifies that the system of operation complies with those provisions, and issues a certificate to that effect in the prescribed form.

  2. A certification under subsection (1) ceases to have effect if—

  3. the approved person, by notice in writing to the certificate holder, revokes the certificate; or
    1. the term of the certification comes to an end.

      1. For the purposes of this section, approved person means—

      2. a person designated by regulations as an approved person:
        1. a member of a class of persons designated by regulations as a class of approved persons.

          Notes
          • Section 116: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
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