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Deadline for electrical workers to register by experience

The Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) today (Sunday) reminded electrical workers that the existing channel which allows them to register as Grade A electrical workers by experience will expire on November 1 this year.

At present, an applicant is qualified to register as a Grace A electrical worker if he satisfies the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services (DEMS) that he has been employed as an electrical worker for at least six years, of which at least one year includes practical experience in electrical work.

"From November 2 onwards, whoever wishes to apply for registration as a Grade A electrical worker will have to, apart from having sufficient working experience in electrical work, possess the required academic qualifications or pass the Grade A Trade Test approved by the DEMS," said a spokesman for the department.

Meanwhile, the spokesman said, under the registration scheme, there are also Grade B and Grade C electrical workers who can perform more complex low voltage electrical work.

Any worker without formal academic qualifications who wishes to be qualified for registration as a Grade B or C electrical worker is required to pass an examination approved or set by DEMS.

The examination for registration as a Grade B worker is held regularly twice a year by the Hong Kong Examination Authority while the examination for registration as a Grade C worker will be available the first time this

year.

"The examination for registration as a Grade C worker is now jointly organised by EMSD, the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. It will be conducted in the first week of November each year starting from 1996," he said.

The spokesman explained that there would be no minimum entry requirement for the examination, although preference would be given to current registered electrical workers, in particular Grade B electrical workers.

"A candidate who has passed the examination will still have to fulfil the electrical work experience requirement as laid down in the Electricity (Registration) Regulations if he wishes to apply for registration as a Grade C electrical worker," he said.