Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REGULATION 2013 - REG 48

48 Eligibility requirements for electrical contractor licence

(1) To be issued an electrical contractor licence, the applicant for the licence must—

(a) have at least 1 qualified business person and 1 qualified technical person to perform electrical work; and

(b) satisfy the insurance requirements under section 51 ; and

(c) satisfy the regulator that electrical work to be performed by the applicant as a licensed electrical contractor is proposed to be—

(i) performed by a qualified technical person for the applicant under the person’s electrical work licence; or

(ii) supervised by a qualified technical person for the applicant who is authorised to perform the work under the person’s electrical work licence.

(2) The regulator must endorse the electrical contractor licence with the name of at least 1 qualified business person and 1 qualified technical person for the applicant.

(3) The applicant may, before the issue of the electrical contractor licence, or at any time after its issue but while the electrical contractor licence is in force, apply to the regulator to have other names endorsed on the electrical contractor licence as the names of qualified business persons or qualified technical persons for the applicant.

(4) The regulator must endorse a person’s name in accordance with the application if the regulator is satisfied the person is a qualified business person or qualified technical person for the applicant.