Application processing timeframes
The processing timeframe starts once your application has been reviewed and is deemed complete.
Please do not contact us unless the processing time for your application has passed. We will contact you if we need more information from you or once we have completed the assessment of your application.
Applications received by mail or post may take up to 10 working days longer to process than applications submitted through our licensing portal. The fastest way for your application to be processed is to complete it in the online licensing portal.
Electrical Workers Portal(external link)
If you are not registered or have not been set up on the licensing portal, read the following instructions:
Logging into the Electrical Workers (EW) Portal
NZ-trained applicants
Registration
- NZ Registration Qualified pathway (National Certificate): 20 working days
- NZ Registration Experience pathway: 30 working days
Licence
- Practising Licence: (Including registered electrical workers applying for a PL manually): 20 working days
- Trainee Limited Certificates: 20 working days
Overseas-trained applicants
Registration
- Registration application for applicants trained overseas:
14 weeks once all required paperwork is submitted. The 14 week assessment period begins from the time an application is deemed complete and assessment ready.
Licence
- Limited Certificates Overseas: 20 working days
- Provisional Licence: Overseas: 20 working days
- Practising Licence: Overseas applicants applying for a PL to complete registration: 35 working days
TTMRA applicants
Registration and licence
- TTMRA applications: 1 month