Protecting public health
We are the regulators for Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers in Aotearoa New Zealand
The Board protects the health and safety of the public by ensuring plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers are competent to carry out restricted work.
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What do you need to do today?
For Consumers
Check a tradesperson
Verify that your plumber, gasfitter or drainlayer holds a current practising licence before work begins.
Search the register (opens in a new tab)FOR INDUSTRY
Apply or renew a licence
Start a new practitioner registration application, renew for the year, or update your registration details.
Apply for registrationCOMPLAINTS
Make a complaint
Report substandard or unsafe work. We consider complaints about conduct that might be an offence under the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006.
Report an issueDevelopment
Complete CPD
For a registered person, completing CPD is a mandatory condition to relicense each year.
Complete CPDTHE BOARD IN NUMBERS
Safe work starts with competent practitioners
- Individual plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers authorised to practise in Aotearoa
- 14,894
- Certification Authorities appointed under the SCV regime
- 29
- Practitioners endorsed to self-certify plumbing and drainlaying
- 100
- District Court sentencings under the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Act 2006 this year
- 4
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