Pursuant to Regulation 194 of the Electricity Governance Regulations 2003, the Electricity Commission ("Commission") gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 105 (Class A Approved Test Houses)) Exemption Notice 2009.
(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date on which it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Exemption-All Class A approved test houses
("Test Houses") are exempted from compliance with the requirement, contained in Rule 3.2 of Code of Practice
D2 of Schedule D1 of Part D of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003 ("Rules"), to be certified to the relevant
AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 series quality certification or deemed equivalent.
3. Terms and conditions-This exemption is granted on the following conditions:
(a) This exemption expires at the close of 30 September 2012;
(b) the Test House must have its ISO 17025 certification extended to cover everything that ISO 9001:2000 covered except unsupervised or non-accredited service providers or subcontractors; and
(c) the Test House must not use unsupervised or
non-accredited service providers or subcontractors unless these service providers or subcontractors
hold their own ISO 9001:2000 certification with the appropriate coverage for the work being done.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) Test Houses who operate within the scope of their extended ISO 17025 certification and do not
use unsupervised or non-accredited service providers or subcontractors do not need ISO 9001:2000
to effectively carry out their tasks as ISO 17025 is sufficient;
(b) if Test Houses operate within the scope of their
ISO 17025 certification, there will be unreasonable costs associated with obtaining a quality standard that the Test Houses would never need to use;
(c) this will not affect any other participants or service providers; and
(d) this issue will be considered further as part of the current review of Part D of the Rules.
Dated at Wellington this 31st day of August 2009.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:
DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.