187ANatural person may apply for a licence

187A Natural person may apply for a licence (1) Subject to subsection (3), a natural person may apply to the Authority to be licensed, including provisionally licensed, as a building employee in a class of building employee that authorises the carrying out of a type of building work prescribed for the purposes of section 169EA. Note, that in section 169EA(1) there is an offence against a person for carrying out building work prescribed for the purposes of that section if the person is not registered under Part 11 or licensed under this Part to carry out that building work. S. 187A(2) inserted by No. 40/2021 s. 32(2). (2) An application for a provisional licence must be made— (a) within 12 months after that type of building work is prescribed; or (b) if the Authority considers that exceptional circumstances apply in respect of the application, within any longer period determined by the Authority, which must not in total exceed 24 months after that type of building work is prescribed. S. 187A(3) inserted by No. 40/2021 s. 32(2). (3) The Authority must refuse an application for a provisional licence— (a) that is not made within the period of time allowed under subsection (2); or (b) in a class of building employee if the person has previously been granted a provisional licence in that class of building employee. S. 187B inserted by No. 46/2018 s. 21.