Pursuant to section 5 of the Industry Training Act 1992,
full recognition is given to the New Zealand Extractive Industries Training Organisation Incorporated to set standards on the National Qualifications Framework at Levels 1 to 10 the following industries:
Coal mining (opencast and underground), alluvial pit (gravel, sand and opencast), dredging for minerals
(civil works excluded), and tunnelling; gas engineering, pipeline mechanical inspection, gas metering, governor fitting, gas measuring, appliance servicing, mains
and service laying, leakage surveying, specialist
meter reading, plant/process operations in exploration/
production, hydrocarbon refining and petrochemical processing sectors of the petrochemical industry and petrochemical industry specific skills, geoscientists, engineers (chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and process), mechanical instrumentation and electrical tradespersons, metering and telemetry technicians, cathodic technicians, abrasive blasting covering; abrasive blasting, blasting coating operations and protective coating industry; gas distribution, reticulation, sales, repair and maintenance, petrochemical and abrasive blasting industries; and areas of scrap metal recovery, resource recovery, waste management (excluding water), recycling and zero waste.
Dated at Wellington this 6th day of May 2005.
TREVOR MALLARD, Minister of Education.