76Maintenance of certain plumbing installations by qualified persons

76 Maintenance of certain plumbing installations by qualified persons

A person must not perform maintenance work on an essential building service that is a plumbing installation or system (including maintenance of an on-site wastewater system and its land application area or the pumping out a septic tank, wastewater treatment unit or wastewater land application area) unless that person –

(a) is a licensed plumber; or

(b) is a member of a class of persons that the Director of Building Control has specified as being a competent person to pump out the system; or

(c) has an environmental approval under the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 to deal or dispose with the controlled waste, within the meaning of that Act, that may result from pumping out the tank, unit or area; or

(d) is authorised by the relevant permit authority to pump out the system as part of work being performed under the Act.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding 15 penalty units for each day during which the offence continues.