  
4. Energy Safety Review Bill
Major features of the Energy Safety Review Bill as
it relates to electrical workers are:
- The Board will be renamed the Electrical
Workers Licensing Board.
- The Board will define electrical worker
licence categories as opposed to those
categories being listed in legislation as at
present.
- The current registration and licensing
system will be replaced by a licensing system
based on assuring the ongoing competence of
licence holders.
- Complaints Assessment Committees will be
replaced by Investigators.
- The Board may exempt workers from having to
uplift a practicing licence.
- The Board will be able to review the
competence of licensed persons. If the Board
believes the competence of a licensed person is
deficient the Board may require the person to
undertake a competence programme or place
conditions on the persons licence.
- The Board will be able to issue employer
licences.
- An infringement offence regime will be
introduced which enables the Secretary or the
Registrar to issue an infringement notice if
there are reasonable grounds to believe that a
specified offence has been committed.
- Monetary penalties have been amended.
- People who hold practicing licences prior to
the commencement of the new licensing regime
will be deemed to hold a licence under the new
provisions.
- Registers must contain all of the
information and documentation contained in the
present registers.
The Commerce Select Committee has called for
submissions on the Bill and if any person wishes to
make a submission full details on how to do that can
be found at
www.parliament.govt.nz
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