Street Works (Qualifications of Supervisors and Operatives) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Qualifications of supervisors

2.—(1) A supervisor has a prescribed qualification for a particular type of supervisory work specified in column (1) of Schedule 4 if—

(a) an approved body has issued him with a certificate of competence showing that he has been assessed by an approved assessment centre as having achieved the relevant units of competence as set out in column (2) of that Schedule and that certificate is currently registered in an approved register; or

(b) he has obtained a qualification of another EEA State which gives an equivalent guarantee of skill and competence to that given by the certificate of competence required by sub-paragraph (a),

provided that, for a period of two months beginning with the day on which he is assessed as having achieved the requisite units of competence, a supervisor shall be treated as having a prescribed qualification for that type of supervisory work, notwithstanding that an approved body has not issued him with a certificate of competence or that the certificate issued to him has not been registered as required by sub-paragraph (a).

(2) A supervisor shall not require to have a prescribed qualification for supervising the replacement of poles, lamps, columns and signs, pole testing or similar works involving minimal breaking up of the street.

(3) A prescribed qualification for a supervisor may relate to all types of work which may fall to be done by a supervisor, or may be restricted to some types of that work and the requirements of Article 27 of the Order shall be deemed to be satisfied only in relation to the types of work to which that qualification relates.