Hi Robbo
You can always add an additional page with your comments - don't feel constrained by the lack of space.  What is interesting though is the fact that they show the fees they are consulting on, but do NOT show how they get to this figure.  This is very important.  If you check the annual report and see what they collected in disciplinary levies and what was expended there is a gap (in their favour).    ALL money collected for disciplinary matters should be used for disciplinary matters or else it should be ring fenced and carried forward to the next year.  On this basis there would be a pool of money available and a real possibility that the disciplinary levy should be lowered this year in total.  I would like to see a transparent break down of spending.  For example in the latest Fellow Practitioner we saw costs for just one disciplinary case - but in those totals there were no costs for the Board's travel to the particular town where the hearing was heard, nor for accommodation or food etc - where are theyse costs attributed in their accounts?  The PGDB should have provided more information with their consultation document.  When you are considering what to put - spent a few minutes looking at the annual accounts to see where this money is going.

hi guys, just reading the blurb on employer licencing. it seems that there has been little interest in this licence,.. The Board has not yet issued an employer licence but there are currently two businesses still operating under licences issued by the Ministry of Economic Development. Considering an application for an employer licence
will require the Board to engage external expertise to assess the applicant’s operating systems to
ensure that the health and safety of the public would not be compromised by issuing a licence.
The proposed fee is set to recover the estimated cost to the Board of processing and assessing an
application. The costs are estimated on the basis that this work will involve two days of consultant
time and four hours of staff time.

looks like spend a lot of time and our money on this for no good reason so i say lets have a question of: Do you think that the employer licence should be discontinued, cheers

hi guys/aboutgas, go up to my first post, it is there to download,cheers

hi guys/integrated, i believe that having a "employer licence" allows an employer to employ a load of cowboys to do the work as long as they are supervised by a certifying tradesman,cheers 

hi guys, just noticed that when they want to agree with their fee extortion, they then include us in the statement of protection of n.zers where they say they are also protecting our reputation,,,funny that.

 Disciplinary levy and prosecutions fee.
The Act provides that it is an offence to do, or assist with, plumbing, gasfitting or Drainlaying work unless authorised by the Act. One of the Board’s functions is to take legal action against people who commit such offences. This protects public health and safety and the reputation of licensed plumbers, gasfitters and Drainlayers.
 Never seen that before anywhere in their newsletters,cheers

hi guys,yes jax a good idea but that only covers gasfitting. Why should us tradesmen be:levied/taxed to fund prosecution of members of the public who choose to break the law and are knothing to do with us,who knows what else they will want us to fund as they thing we are such an easy touch. Put the levy/tax where it belongs with the sellers of materials and tools and advice to these people who carry out this illegal work,cheers