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Construction Occupations (Licensing) Regulation 2004
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14 Skill assessment of individuals
(1) This section applies if—
(a) the registrar is not satisfied that an applicant has a qualification
required to be eligible for the licence or endorsement applied
for; or
(b) the registrar—
(i) is satisfied that an applicant has a qualification required to
be eligible for the licence or endorsement applied for; and
(ii) is not satisfied on reasonable grounds that the applicant has
a skill reasonably necessary to satisfactorily exercise the
functions of a construction occupation or class of
construction occupation under the licence or endorsement
applied for; or
(c) the registrar requires an applicant to undertake an assessment
under section 18B.
(2) The registrar may require the applicant to undertake an assessment to
find out whether the applicant has the skills and knowledge
reasonably necessary to satisfactorily exercise the functions of a
construction occupation or class of construction occupation under the
licence or endorsement applied for.
(3) An assessment may consist of 1 or more of the following:
(a) an assessment by a person who the registrar is satisfied is
competent to make the assessment;
(b) an examination, which may have practical, written and oral
aspects, by a registered training organisation that the registrar is
satisfied is competent to set and assess the examination;
(c) an examination of a record of the applicant’s experience
provided by the applicant;
(d) the undertaking of a test, or a series of tests, approved by the
registrar.
(4) The applicant must pay to the Territory the reasonable costs incurred
by the Territory in arranging or carrying out an assessment.
(5) An applicant is not eligible to be licensed, or to have a licence
endorsed, if the applicant has not complied with subsection (4).
(6) In this section:
registered training organisation—see the National Vocational
Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cwlth), section 3.