Fees

The fees listed here are effective from 1 April 2026.

Ways to pay has changed

From 1 July 2025, the Board will be removing credit card fields on registration and licensing application forms, and all payments will be made through the Trade Login .

The Board is making this change to reduce manual application wait times and remove handling credit card information.

For first-time registration as Restricted, Plumber, Gasfitter, Drainlayer, or Certifier the following fees apply:

Note: If no other licence is held for the licensing year, the disciplinary levy and offences fee must also be paid on the application for registration and the following fees apply.

Note: in addition to paying the annual practising licence fee above, you are also required to pay the disciplinary and prosecution levy below.

Note: only one disciplinary and prosecution levy is payable per registered person, per licence period. For example:

Note: your annual practising licence will not be issued until the disciplinary and prosecution levy have been paid.

Licence card cost

The Board licence card is virtual and available on the PGDB App (available to download for free on Apple or Android). Alternatively you can order a physical licence card for the price of $4.50 incl GST by selecting the option in your Trade Login.

Note: 'notification of an exemption under supervision' fees indicated in the table above are payable by the certifying gasfitter, plumber or drainlayer supervising that person.

Below is the fee and audit levy certifying plumbers and certifying drainlayers will need to pay when applying for a self-certification endorsement.

The fee and audit levy cover the 3-year period of the endorsement.

The Board is a regulatory body charged with ensuring that plumbers, gasfitters, and drainlayers practice safely and competently, with the primary goal of protecting public safety. This is required by law under the Act 2006.

Each year the Board collects a Disciplinary and prosecution levy from each registered person when they renew their practising licence. The levy covers two areas:

• discipline (by the Board in a hearing) of registered practitioners who have done substandard work (i.e. Restricted, Plumber/Gasfitter/Drainlayer, Certifying), and
• prosecution in court of non-registered people who do illegal, unauthorised work

The disciplinary levy goes directly towards costs arising out of prosecutions for registered and unregistered tradespeople and the prior investigation as set out in Section 143.

The fees paid by practitioners fully fund the execution of the Board’s regulatory functions. The Board receives no government funding and manages its operations on a full cost recovery basis.