- Laws of Fiji

[ELE 10,170] Electrical contractor’s licence34

(1) Subject to any regulations made by the Regulator, any person who wishes to be a licensed electrical contractor must make an application in writing to the Company and must furnish all information to the Company or licensed supplier that it may require, and the Company or licensed supplier may, in its discretion, issue an electrical contractor’s licence in the appropriate form to any applicant being—

(a)a municipal council;
(b)a person who immediately before 1 January 1969 was an approved contractor under the Lautoka Electricity By laws 1955;
(c)a licensed wiring person;
(d)a partnership, company, society, association or body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, trading or intending to trade as an electrical contractor, upon the Company or licensed supplier being satisfied that at least one member or employee of the partnership, company, society, association or body is either a licensed electrical contractor or a licensed wiring persons;
(e)a person whose electrical contractor’s licence has expired and not been renewed, and who is qualified to be an applicant under any of the foregoing provisions of this subregulation; or
(f)a person whose electrical contractor’s licence has been cancelled or suspended under regulation 39 and in whose use the Company or licensed supplier, in its discretion, thinks it proper to grant a new licence, provided that such person is otherwise qualified to be an applicant under this subregulation.

(2) Every application must be accompanied by the appropriate fee for the issue of an electrical contractor’s licence set out in Schedule 1, and the fee must be refunded by the Company to the applicant if the application is not granted.

(3) Any person who contracts to do, or carries out as a contractor, any electrical work of wiring, constructing, installing, repairing altering any installation, or any part of an installation, without being the holder of a valid electrical contractor’s licence or renewal of such a licence issued to him or her by the Company of licensed supplier commits an offence.