Plumbers, Gasfitters
and Drainlayers Board
News
Self-Certification for plumbing and drainlaying
Date: 29/10/2025
Freedom camping vehicle owners encouraged to act early on new certification rules
Date: 27/08/2025
Man posed as a plumber and drainlayer, illegally worked on elderly neighbours’ home
Date: 23/06/2025
$4,319 reparation awarded for illegal drainlaying done by previous owner
Date: 17/04/2025
International Women's Day 2025 - Diana Kuhtz-Covich
Date: 8/03/2025
New Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board Chair and Deputy Chair appointed
Date: 14/02/2025
CONZTRUCT partnering with Reece and PGDB to deliver CPD
Date: 30/01/2025
Man fined $8,000 for issuing fake gas certificates and carrying out unsafe gasfitting work endangering lives
Date: 2/12/2024
Registration class name changes
Date: 29/11/2024
The one-year transition period for the 2023 Building Code update has ended
Date: 18/11/2024
Board response to Government’s self-certification scheme announcement
Date: 30/10/2024
Board member appointments
Date: 30/09/2024
Two new Board members started their terms this month
Whangārei man ordered to pay $4,100 reparation for unauthorised gasfitting
Date: 16/08/2024
Waihanga Ara Rau making it easy for you to have your say in the future structure of the vocational education system
Date: 9/08/2024
Update to Regulations - August 2024
Date: 1/08/2024
Man serving four-year fraud conviction found guilty of working as an unlicensed plumber
Date: 30/07/2024
Bryan Martin sentenced for falsely advertising and working as a plumber
Unauthorised man fined $7,500 for posing as plumber
Date: 24/07/2024
District Court sentencing June 2024
Date: 2/07/2024
Sentencing in the Porirua District Court
Unlicensed electrical and plumbing worker sentenced for dangerous work, fined
Date: 26/06/2024
Joint media release Electrical Workers Registration Board and Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board
International Women's Day 2024
Date: 8/03/2024
Women make up about 2% of registered plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers in Aotearoa. Ahead of #IWD2024, we spoke to Billie McDonnell, Certifying Drainlayer, Tradesman Plumber and Gasfitter.
Board elections 2024
Date: 13/02/2024
The Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board (the Board) held elections today at their first meeting of the year.
Introducing the self-contained vehicles regulatory system
Date: 7/12/2023
Today marks the first day of the new self-contained vehicles system in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Have your say on PGDB consultations
Date: 22/09/2023
We want to hear from you
Guidance on removal of flue cowls/terminals
Date: 17/08/2023
Guidance on removal of flue cowls/terminals
MEDIA RELEASE | Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board to regulate certifiers of self-contained vehicles
Date: 7/06/2023
Yesterday the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (the SCV Act) was assented by the Governor-General and passed into law.
MEDIA RELEASE | Man convicted and ordered to pay $57k for unauthorised plumbing and drainlaying
Date: 14/03/2023
A Wellington man was sentenced in the Hutt Valley District Court on 13 march 2023 for unlicensed plumbing and drainlaying at 12 properties from November 2019 to December 2021.
MEDIA RELEASE | Board Elections 2023
Date: 20/02/2023
Board Chair re-appointed, new Deputy Chair elected; industry response to Gabrielle