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Construction Occupations (Licensing) Regulation 2004
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14A Notice of skill assessment
(1) This section applies if the registrar requires an applicant for a licence
or renewal of a licence to undertake an assessment under section 14.
(2) The registrar must give a notice (an assessment notice) to the
applicant about the assessment.
(3) An assessment notice must be given to the applicant—
(a) in the case of a licence renewal—within a reasonable time, but
not less than 28 days, before the licence term ends; or
(b) in any other case—within a reasonable time before the
assessment is required to be completed.
(4) An assessment notice must include—
(a) the reason the assessment is required; and
(b) a statement that the assessment will be used by the registrar to
determine whether the applicant has the skills and knowledge
reasonably necessary to satisfactorily exercise the functions of a
construction occupation or occupation class under the licence
applied for; and
(c) information about the assessment, including how and where the
assessment will be conducted; and
(d) the latest date by which the applicant must complete the
(e) if the applicant is to be given the written results of the
assessment by the person conducting the assessment (if the
person is not the registrar)—the latest date by which the
applicant must give the results to the registrar; and
(f) a statement that the applicant may make written representations
to the registrar about 1 or more of the following not later than
5 business days after the day the notice is given to the applicant:
(i) the latest date by which the applicant must complete the
assessment stated in the notice;
(ii) the latest date by which the applicant must give the results
to the registrar if the applicant is to be given the written
results of the assessment by the person conducting the
assessment (if the person is not the registrar).
(5) In this section:
applicant, in relation to a licence renewal, means the licensee even if
the licensee has not yet applied for renewal of the licence under
the Act, section 25.