Contractor May Employ Registered Plumber
DEPARTMENT’S APPEAL FAILS.
Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. An unregistered plumbing contractor is entitled to employ a registered plumber to do sanitary plumbing work, even though tho employer himsolf is not a registered plumber. This ruling was given by Mr. Justice McGregor to-day when dismissing the appeal by the Health Department against the decision of Mr. R. W. Tate S.M. The Magistrate • had held that Sydney George, an unregistered plumber, bad not committed an offence against the Act or regulations when he employed a registered plumber to do sanitary plumbing. The department argued that the employer of the man who actually did the work must be registered.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7085, 6 December 1929, Page 6
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