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Electrical Installation Regulations = Government Gazette No. R. 242 dated 6 March 2009 |
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| What does the law says about Certificates of Compliance (CoC)?: |
| Who needs to obtain a Certificate of Compliance?: |
| Who is responsible for the design and construction of an electrical installation? |
| Electrical Installation Regulation 5 "Design and Construction" |
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5(1) No person may authorise, design, install or permit or require the installation of an electrical installation, other than in accordance with a health and safety standard incorporated into these Regulations under section 44 of the Act. |
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| 5(2) No person may use components within an electrical installation unless those components comply with the standards referred to in the relevant incorporated standard referred to in sub- regulation (1), and proof of compliance shall be identifiable on the components or certification shall be available from the manufacturer or supplier of the materials or components in terms of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications Act, 2008 (Act NO.5 of 2008). |
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| 5(3) Items of an electrical installation not covered by an incorporated health and safety standard, and the conductors between the point of supply and the point of control, shall be installed in accordance with the by-laws or regulations of the supplier concerned. |
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| 5(4) A registered person shall exercise general control over all electrical installation work being carried out, and no person may allow such work without such control. |
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| 5(5) Where the voltage exceeds 1 kV, a person deemed competent in terms of paragraphs (b), (c) or (d) of the definition of a competent person in regulation 1 of the General Machinery Regulations, 1988, GMR1 or a person registered in a professional category in terms of the Engineering Profession Act, 2000, shall approve the design of that part of an electrical installation. |
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| 5(6) Where the intention is to supply five or more users from a new point of supply, the user shall appoint an approved inspection authority for electrical installations or a person deemed competent in terms of paragraph (b), (c) or (d) GMR2 of the definition of a competent person in regulation 1 of the General Machinery Regulations, 1988, or a person registered in a professional category in terms of the Engineering Profession Act, 2000, who shall ensure the compliance contemplated in subregulation (1) from the commencement to the commissioning of the electrical installation. |
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| Electrical Installation Regulation 7. "Certificate of compliance": |
| 7(1) Subject to the provisions of subregulation (3), every user or lessor of an electrical installation, as the case may be, shall have a valid certificate of compliance for that installation in the form of Annexure 1 , which shall be accompanied by a Test Report in the format approved by the Chief Inspector, in respect of every such electrical installation. |
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| 7(2)Subject to the provisions of subregulation (3), every user or lessor of an electrical installation, as the case may be, shall on request produce the certificate of compliance for that electrical installation to an inspector,a supplier or, subject to regulation 4(1), an approved inspection authority for electrical installations. |
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| 7(5) Subject to the provisions of section 10(4) of the Act, the user or lessor may not allow a change of ownership if the certificate of compliance is older than two years. |
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| 7(7)If an inspector, an approved inspection authority for electrical installations or supplier has carried out an inspection or test and has detected any fault or defect in any electrical installation, that inspector, approved inspection authority for electrical installations or supplier may require the user or lessor of that electrical installation to obtain a new certificate of compliance: Provided that if such fault or defect in the opinion of the inspector, approved inspection authority for electrical installations or supplier constitutes an immediate danger to persons, that inspector, approved inspection authority for electrical installations or supplier shall forthwith take steps to have the supply to the circuit in which the fault or defect was detected, disconnected: Provided further that where such fault or defect is of such a nature that it may indicate negligence on the part of a registered person, the inspector, approved inspection authority for electrical installations or supplier shall forthwith report those circumstances in writing to the chief inspector. |
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Who may issue a Certificate of Compliance? :
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| Electrical Installation Regulation 9 "Issuing a Certificate of Compliance" : |
| 9(1) No person other than a registered person may issue a Certificate of Compliance. |
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| 9(3) If at any time prior to the issuing of a Certificate of Compliance any fault or defect is detected in any part of the electrical installation, the registered person shall refuse to issue such certificate until that fault or defect has been rectified: Provided that if such fault or defect in the opinion of the registered person constitutes an immediate danger to persons in a case where electricity is already supplied, he or she shall forthwith take steps to disconnect the supply to the circuit in which the fault or defect was detected and notify the chief inspector thereof. |
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| 9(5) No person may amend a certificate of compliance. |
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| When shall a Certificate of Compliance be issued? : |
| Electrical Installation Regulation 9 "Commencement of and permission to connect installation work: |
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| 9(1) No person shall commence installation work which requires a new supply or an increase in electricity supply capacity unless the supplier has been notified thereof in the form of Annexure 4: Provided that the supplier may waive this requirement in respect of such types of work as it may specify. |
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| 9(2 )No person shall connect or permit the connection of any completed or partially completed electrical installation to the electricity supply unless it has been inspected and tested by a registered person and a certificate of compliance for that electrical installation has been issued:Provided that the supplier may on request connect the supply to the electrical installation for the purpose of testing and the completion of the certificate of compliance by a registered person: Provided further that this subregulation shall not apply in a case where the electricity was disconnected for the non-payment of the electricity account or where there has been a change of tenant but not of ownership. |
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