Not Phew! Robbo - they are still proceeding to make participation in a competence review a term and condition of licensing which is extremely unnecessary in my opinion.  The Act already allows them to do competency reviews and there is a process to follow - there is no reason to make a change from what is existing - and the one example they have given for going through this whole process does not stand up to scrutiny i.e. the guy refused participation because THE BOARD didn't follow the proper procedure.

Remember as soon as it is a term and condition of licensing then someone has to pay for any costs associated with it - and that someone is practitioners.  So you could see in 2015 a licence fee that not only has disciplinary and prosecution figures attached to it, but additional costs for competency reviews.

Not going ahead with making random audits a t&c is throwing bones to the dogs - they will undoubtedly bring this in under cover later.  This is not a win for anyone but them.  They have again managed to give themselves more power than the Act intended and yet again will provide more fodder for a challenge to the Regulation Review Committee and the Ombudsman.

Watch and wait for the fireworks!

When you look at it the situation is even worse now where they are still going to make a competency review a term and condition of a license, however instead of a limit of 150 they now can apply it to an unlimited number. 

I think this is the start of the new Chairman laying down the law and forcing compliance. All very well until you run out of people to dictate to.

i love the bit ..."They were not satisfied that there was sufficient buy in from the industry to make this programme a success."
 haha @ buy in! what magical wording.i could think of a couple of better words!!!!! 

i am certainly not impressed with the path they are taking and you know exactly what their up too Jaxcat, i also agree, they WILL charge a fee to admin the auditing of cpd, ... they have too, how the hell are they going to be able to afford to pay all those lawyer hanger oners and that flash towers location with out us gas fitters throwing $25 at them every day of our working life!

yet again VERY disappointing in a board who clearly are useless,
wouldnt it be nice to have a board that WE vote in?? based on what WE know are good people, not clowns ( yeah you are reading this clowns)
i have been on  national bodies and our members vote us in.... why cant pgdb be the same???
or is that just too simple??

hi guys, yes agree with all but they have to seek approval from the Minister for Building and Construction, I do hope he has swallowed that rubber stamp and choked himself,cheers 

Hi guys, yes I do agree with all posts but did see a real problem with `random audits` namely just after you attempt to re-license and pay, there was no way that I would have chanced it, of course they will still try to bring it in as a `condition of license` buy that will be the end for me. If they get or are given any more power they might as well be the f-ing government,cheers 

Shane Jones is, in my opinion, a waste of space.  I don't think he has any integrity at all.  Picture this - an appointment has been made to see him, you turn up 10 minutes early out of courtesy, sign in at Parliament reception desk, they ring through, tell you to take a seat and someone will come and collect you shortly.  As you are standing at reception you see him walk past smiling and talking to a colleague - ahh you think, he must be heading up to his office someone should be down shortly.  10 minutes passes and his PA comes down and says that Mr Jones has been taken ill and the appointment will need to be re-scheduled.  You tell her that this is amazing - and that next time he's going to throw a sickie he might like to re-think the path he walks so that it isn't right past the people he is waiting to see.  She tries to re-schedule and you tell her that if he wants to meet he might need to come out and see you - at a place where real people work.

The guy is full of hot air - I would waste any good foot leather on going to see him ever again. 

Holly from the Greens was quite sympathetic towards practitioners in the restrospective legislation debate - but again not a full grasp on facts - but better than Flip Flop that';s for sure.

hi guys, politicians will listen it`s their job and they are at work but they all seem to sit on the fence when a decision has to be made so don`t think we will get any joy there, unless john key says it, it will not happen, cheers