Ainsworth [2024] EWRB CE22754 – Final Decision
- Complaint number: CE22754
- EWRB number: 132479
- Region: Wellington
- Registration class: Electrician
- Decision date: 12 June 2024
- Penalty: 147M(1)(f) - Fine 147N - Cost 147Z - Publication in Gazette
- Disciplinary grounds: Section 143(a)(i) - Carried out PEW in negligent/incompetent manner Section 143(a)(ii) - Carried out PEW contrary to enactment Section 143(f) - Failed to provide / provided false or misleading return
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Summary:
The Respondent has committed disciplinary offences under sections 143(a)(i) and (f) of the Act.
[1] The Respondent was fined $750 and ordered to pay costs of $250. The fine and costs were reduced on the basis that the Respondent accepted that he had committed the offences, and the matter was dealt with on the basis of an Agreed Statement of Facts. A record of the offences will be recorded on the public Register for a period of three years, the Respondent will be named in this decision, and an article summarising the matter will be published in the Electron.