Electrical vocational employment training

Guidance
This Building and Energy guidance explains the electrical work secondary school students undertaking electrical vocational employment training may perform.
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The Electricity (Licensing) Regulations 1991 specify licensing requirements for electrical workers and contractors. Regulation 19 prohibits electrical work being carried out by non-licensed persons.

An electrician’s training licence is issued to a person upon entering an electrical apprenticeship, or an electrical pre-apprenticeship course, or a special tripartite VET arrangement where an electrical apprenticeship is offered to VET students successfully completing a specific training program.

View additional information on safe working guidelines for electrical apprentices:
Safe working guidelines – Information for electrical licence holders.

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