  
5. Results of Disciplinary Hearings
Electrician
A complaint was lodged against an electrician
from Waitakere by another electrician from
Auckland. The complaint alleged that a
switchboard, air-conditioning and refrigeration
control panel was installed without fuse
carriers, missing terminal covers and a live
wire exposed and that the electrician
inadequately connected conductors, failed to
adequately protect cables and failed to
adequately test the work carried out.
The Board considered the complaint and found
the electrician not guilty of a disciplinary
offence because the electrician did not
personally carry out the work in question.
The Board took no further action.
Electrician
A complaint was laid against an electrician
from Rangiora by an electrical inspector from
Christchurch. The complaint alleged that the
electrician, while repairing a microwave oven,
disabled a door switch on the oven.
The Board considered the complaint and found the
electrician guilty of a disciplinary offence in that
the electrician:
Contravened regulation 69, by virtue of
regulation 76A(1)(a), of the Electricity
Regulations 1997 by disabling a safety device on
a microwave meaning that, in the event of
abnormal operation, the appliance would function
unsafely so as to cause danger to persons or
property.
The Board censured the electrician. The Board
also ordered the electrician to pay costs of
$500.00. The Board made an order suppressing
publication of the electrician's name.
Electrician
A complaint was laid against an electrician
from Hamilton by another electrician, from an
electrical contracting company in Hamilton. The
complaint alleged that the electrician, while
installing lighting points and socket outlets to
a garage, failed to install a "phase splitter"
and that the garage was supplied using 2.5mm2
TPS twin and earth cable run in conduit from an
existing socket outlet in an adjoining house.
The complaint further alleged that a combination
of cable sizes was protected by a 20 amp MCB.
The Board considered the complaint and found the
electrician not guilty of a disciplinary offence
because it did not consider the work carried out by
the electrician to be non-compliant. The Board took
no further action.
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