Pursuant to Regulation 6 of the Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999, I, Keith Stewart, Acting Manager National Operations (for Secretary of Labour), hereby give notice of the exemption of all equipment from the requirements of the Regulations that the certificate of inspection must be issued or renewed on the recommendation of, and bearing the name of, the equipment inspector who inspected the equipment, subject to the following conditions:
1. The certificate of inspection is issued or renewed on the recommendation of, and bearing the name of an equipment inspector;
2. The inspection was carried out by a trainee equipment inspector employed or engaged by the issuing inspection body;
3. The trainee equipment inspector was, at the time of the inspection, under the effective supervision of the equipment inspector named on the certificate;
4. The inspection body maintains procedures relating
to the training and effective supervision of trainee equipment inspectors, and keeps full training and inspection records, including a summary record of
all inspections clearly indicating which were carried out under the terms of this exemption;
5. The inspection body has obtained the written approval of the Secretary to operate under the terms of this exemption, that approval being subject to satisfactory initial examination by the Secretary of the inspection body's records and procedures relevant to training and effective supervision;
6. The written approval in 5 above is for a stated time period and may contain additional conditions;
7. The secretary is provided with access, at times of his or her choosing, to carry out periodic examinations
of the inspection body's records and procedures relevant to training and effective supervision;
8. The secretary may cancel the approval in writing at any time;
9. The stated time period for the written approval in
5 above is not exceeded;
10. Any additional conditions of the written approval in 5 above are complied with; and
11. The written approval in 5 above has not been cancelled.
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of February 2005.
KEITH STEWART, for Secretary of Labour.