AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Plumbers, Drainers and Gasfitters Board (Amendment) Ordinance 1988
No. 13 of 1988
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 16 March 1988.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
GARY PUNCH
Minister of State for the Arts 
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Plumbers, Drainers and Gasfitters Board  Ordinance 1982
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Plumbers, Drainers and Gasfitters Board (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.1
Commencement
2.  This Ordinance shall come into operation on 25 March 1988.
Principal Ordinance
3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Plumbers, Drainers and Gasfitters Board Ordinance 1982.2
Certificates of competency
4.  Section 24 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from paragraph (1) (f) “or”; and
	(b)	by inserting after paragraph (1) (g) the following word and paragraph:
	“; or	(h)	a sprinkler fitter;”.
Licences
5.  Section 25 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from paragraph (1) (k) “or”;
	(b)	by inserting after paragraph (1) (l) the following word and paragraph:
	“; or	(m)	a sprinkler fitter’s licence;”;
	(c)	by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)  An application for a licence under this section—
	(a)	shall be in writing;
	(b)	shall specify—
	(i)	the licence in respect of which the application is made; and
	(ii)	whether the application is in respect of a licence for a period of 1 year or for a period of 5 years; and
	(c)	shall be lodged with the Board together with the determined fee.”; and
	(d)	by adding at the end of subsection (3) “and shall specify the period for which it is to remain in force in accordance with section 29”.
Qualifications for issue of licences
6.  Section 26 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “or an advanced sanitary drainer’s” and substituting “, an advanced sanitary drainer’s licence or a sprinkler fitter’s”;
	(b)	by omitting from paragraph (2) (f) “and”; and
	(c)	by adding at the end of subsection (2) the following word and paragraph:
	“; and	(h)	in relation to an applicant for a sprinkler fitter’s 	licence—a certificate of competency as a sprinkler 	fitter.”.
Substitution
7.  Section 29 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and the following sections are substituted:
Duration of licence
“29.  A licence, unless sooner cancelled or suspended, remains in force for the period of 1 year or 5 years (whichever period is specified in the licence) commencing on the date of issue, but may be renewed in accordance with section 29A.
Renewal of licence
“29A.  The Board shall, on application being made and on payment of the determined fee, before the expiration of the term of a licence, renew the licence for a period of 1 year or 5 years commencing on the day immediately following the day on which, but for its renewal, the licence would have expired.”.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 March 1988.
2.	No. 74, 1982 as amended by No. 46, 1984.