Many and increasingly more Metropolitans, Local authorities and Insurance Company's require that any person working on plumbing works within their jurisdiction or being part of their panel plumbers must be registered with the Plumbing Industry Registration Board. It is illegal for any person who works on plumbing installation if he/she is not a qualified plumber or not working under the adequate supervision of a qualified plumber.
PIRB Registered plumbers have demonstrated their qualifications and in some case their experience, and required to have an appropriate level of insurance cover.
The various categories under which plumbing practitioners are registered with the PIRB:
Learner Plumber:
Persons applied for this category of registration must be enrolled in a formalized accredited plumber training stream in terms of the Skills Development Act and the Man-Power Training Act section 13.
Learner Plumber
