http://www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503378&objectid=11342943

Its no mystery as to why these people operate without a license.  I can't believe they got $2k fines and bugger all else.  Surely the Boards costs should have been reimbursed. Going by fines issued to licensed people, those costs are always around 1/2 of the actual cost so in total they are usually around the $10K  ++  mark  .


Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/in-the-media-news/77/are-court-fines-too-low/1773/

Yes the fines are too low compaired to what we have to pay as tradespeople. And costs are the same.

As practitioners we will have paid for the investigation and the prosecution. Just because we are Plumbers Gasfitters and Drainlayers we have to pay for any plonker who thinks they want to do their own plumbing gasfitting or drainlaying.

If I was to do an operation on someone would it be the police or the Medical council who prosecute me?  You'll find it is the police.

Double standards in this country.