Browning [2023] EWRB CE22597 – Final Decision
- Complaint number: CE22597
- EWRB number: EW035228
- Region: Gisborne
- Registration class: Electrician
- Decision date: 17 August 2023
- Penalty: 147M(1)(f) - Fine 147N - Cost
- Disciplinary grounds: Section 143(a)(ii) - Contrary to enactment Section 143(b)(ii) - Serious harm carrying out PEW Section 143(f) - Failed to provide / false return
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Summary:
Pursuant to section 147M(1)(f) of the Electricity Act 1992, the Respondent is ordered to pay a fine of $1,500.
Pursuant to section 147N of the Act, the Respondent is ordered to pay costs of $225 (GST included) towards the costs of, and incidental to, the inquiry of the Board.
The Registrar shall record the Board’s action in the Register of Electrical Workers in accordance with section 128(1)(c)(viii) of the Act. The Respondent will be named in this decision.
A summary of the matter will be published by way of an article in the Electron, which will focus on the lessons to be learnt from the case. The Respondent will not be named in the publication.