Electricity Safety Act 1998
36Electrical contractors not to employ certain persons
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36 Electrical contractors not to employ certain persons
(1) A person (the contractor) must not employ a person (the worker) to carry out, in the course of a business carried on by the contractor, electrical installation work that, under the regulations, is a prescribed class of electrical installation work for the purposes of this Division, unless—
(a) the contractor is a registered electrical contractor under this Division; and
(b) the worker is a licensed electrical installation worker under this Part in respect of electrical installation work of that class.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the employment, in the regular course of a business carried on by a person, of a licensed electrical installation worker to carry out electrical installation work of a class in respect of which the worker is licensed only in premises owned or occupied by the employer.