AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
PLUMBERS, DRAINERS AND GASFITTERS BOARD ACT 1982
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
No. 287 of 2001
Section 4 of the Plumbers, Drainers and Gasfitters Board Act 1982 (the Act), provides
for the establishment of the Plumbers, Drainers and Gasfitters Bard (the Board). The
principal function of the Board is the licensing of plumbers, drainers and gasfitters in the
ACT. The Board also initiates disciplinary action for licensees where breaches of
standards and legislation are detected.
Four of the current nine Board members’ appointments are set to expire on
27 November 2001. To ensure that the Board has a quorum and can continue to operate,
the reminding five members’ appointment are set to expire twelve months later, on
8 December 2002.
Section 5 of the Act provides for the appointment of members and deputy members to the
Board. The instrument appoints JOCELYN PLOVITS, PATRICIA BOLING,
WILLIAM CRICHTON, and GERARD SLOAN as members and ROBERT STONE
and MARK YATES as deputy members to the Board.
The Minister appoints members to the Board for a period not exceeding three years from
the date of gazettal of the instrument.
In accordance with the Statutory Appointments Act 1994, the appointments were referred
to the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services for
consultation and that Committee had no objections to the appointments.