Dris proposal for national licensing of the electrical occupations

Processing component of licence fees

Table H.10: Processing application component of renewal licence fees – worker and contractor licence

Assumption	Unit	Value	Source
Processing application component of renewal licence fees – worker and contractor licence
All jurisdictions other than NSW	%	42%	PricewaterhouseCoopers, Estimating financial impacts of the National Occupational Licensing System, Final Report, August 2009, page 24. Based on estimates of the efficient processing component of licence fees from a survey of regulators undertaken in 2009 (specific to licensing of electrical occupations). Estimate percentage based on licence processing cost as a proportion of fee revenue.
NSW	$	$59	Based on data provided by NSW regulator received 29 February 2012. Based on ‘processing component’ of renewal fees.
Processing application component of new licence fees
NSW contractors	$	$130.48	Based on data provided by NSW regulator received 29 February 2012. Based on ‘processing component’ of new contractor fees – weighted average across individuals, partnerships and corporations.
NSW workers	$	$74.94	Based on data provided by NSW regulator received 29 February 2012. Based on ‘processing component’ of new contractor fees – weighted average across qualified supervisor certificate and tradespersons certificate.

Number of licensees

The latest available data on the number of licensees has been used where available. Where licensee numbers are unavailable, the number of licences has been used as a relevant proxy.

Note that where licences has been used as a proxy (i.e. in the Australian Capital Territory), this may overstate the impacts because the number of licences may include businesses and hence not be representative of the number of natural persons genuinely employed in the industry.

In Queensland an applicant for a sole trader contractor licence is required to hold an occupational licence as well as a contractor licence. This means that 2,560 sole trader contractor licensees each apply, pay and hold two licences (a contractor licence and an occupational licence). In addition, the requirement for a partnership or corporation to obtain a contractor licence is that a current occupational licence must be held by either an employee, member of the partnership or executive officer. Due to these specific circumstances, Queensland has advised that the most appropriate data for this analysis is the number of licences in Queensland.

Table H.11: Contractor licensees (or licences)

Assumption	Unit	Value	Source
Total existing licensees – contractor
NSW	# licensees	31,755	Unpublished data provided by NSW regulator 29 February 2012 Note: includes the number of individual, partnership and company contractor licensees
Vic	# licensees	10,857	Unpublished data provided by Vic regulator received 25 January 2012
Qld	# licences	8,380	Unpublished data provided by Qld regulator, received 20 March 2012
WA	# licensees	4,263	Unpublished data provided by the COAG National Licensing Taskforce, received May 2011.
SA	# licensees	4,511	Unpublished data provided by SA regulator received 20 March 2012
Tas	# licensees	862	Unpublished data provided by the COAG National Licensing Taskforce, received May 2011.
ACT	# licences	2,922^a(individuals)+ 342 (companies)	Unpublished data provided by the COAG National Licensing Taskforce, received May 2011.
NT	# licensees	635	Unpublished data provided by the NT regulator, 07 May 2012

^a Note: Individuals do not require a contractor licence in the ACT to contract for work. Contractor licences are only issued to companies and partnerships.

Table H.12: Total existing licensees (or licences) – contractors and workers

Assumption	Unit	Value	Source
Total existing licensees – worker (non-contractor)
NSW	# licensees	64,096	Unpublished data provided by NSW regulator, 29 February 2012 Note: includes individual contractor, partnership contractor, company contractor, qualified supervisor certificate and tradesperson certificate licensees
Vic	# licensees	51,016	Unpublished data provided by Vic regulator received 25 January 2012
Qld	# licences	54,480	Unpublished data provided by Qld regulator received 20 March 2012
WA	# licensees	31,090	Unpublished data provided by the COAG National Licensing Taskforce received May 2011.
SA	# licensees	18,530	Unpublished data provided by SA regulator received 20 March 2012
Tas	# licensees	5,051	Unpublished data provided by the COAG National Licensing Taskforce received May 2011.
ACT	# licences	3,500	Unpublished data provided by ACT regulator received 11 April 2012
NT	# licensees	5,733	Unpublished data provided by the NT regulator, 07 May 2012