  
1. EditorialOn 30 June 2004 the State Services Minister Trevor Mallard and Acting Housing Minister Rick Barker announced several changes to government agencies aimed at improving and streamlining building and housing services for the public. One of the changes is that the Electrical Workers Licensing Group will move from the Ministry of Economic Development to an expanded Ministry of Housing. The expanded Ministry of Housing will be renamed the Department of Building and Housing to reflect the changes in its work. It is anticipated that the Electrical Workers Licensing Group will move to the new Department during February 2006. The Ministers full press statement is included in this issue of ELECTRON. As indicated in issue 13 of ELECTRON the Board wishes to use the results of complaint hearings as an educational tool for the industry. This issue of ELECTRON contains greater detail on complaint results. I am pleased to announce that agreement has been reached with Standards New Zealand for the Board to print and distribute copies of the newly issued testing Standard -
AS/NZS 3760:2003 (In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment). The Board has a strategic initiative to make all information relevant to the electrical/electronic industry available to those registered electrical workers who uplift practising licences. In the past the copies of AS/NZS 3000, a CD containing nine companion standards, codes of practice and a regulation compilation have been provided to practising licence holders. In line with the Boards strategic initiative all persons who held a practising licence at 30 June 2004 and all industry training organisation trainees will be sent a copy of the new Standard. John Sickels Registrar
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