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Electricity Act 1992

Restrictions on electrical work - Exemptions

79: Exemption for domestic electrical wiring work

You could also call this:

“Rules for doing your own electrical wiring at home”

You can do electrical wiring work in your own home or a home you plan to live in with your family. However, there are some rules you need to follow:

The work you do must be within certain limits set by the rules. You need to do the work in a way that follows the rules and is safe. While you’re doing the work, you can’t connect any of it to the power.

Before you can use the wiring, a registered person with the right licence needs to test it and say it’s okay. This person will also connect the wiring to the power. Sometimes, the rules might not require the testing and connecting to be done by a registered person.

When we say “owner”, we mean the person who would get the rent if the home was rented out at the highest possible price.

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Part 9 Restrictions on electrical work
Exemptions

79Exemption for domestic electrical wiring work

  1. The owner of any premises that are occupied, or intended to be occupied, by that person as a residence for that person, or for that person and members of that person's family, may do any electrical wiring work, or assist in doing any electrical wiring work, in relation to those premises, if—

  2. the work is within the limits prescribed in regulations made for the purposes of this section; and
    1. the work is carried out in accordance with the requirements of any regulations; and
      1. the work is carried out in a competent and safe manner; and
        1. while that work is being carried out, no part of the work is connected to a power supply; and
          1. the work is, before connection to a power supply, tested and certified, in accordance with regulations, by a registered person who holds a current practising licence issued under this Act that authorises that person to test and certify prescribed electrical work; and
            1. the work is connected to a power supply by the registered person referred to in paragraph (e).

              1. Subsection (1)(e) and (f) apply only if required by regulations.

              2. For the purposes of subsection (1), owner, in relation to any premises, means the person who (whether alone or as a joint tenant or tenant in common) would for the time being be entitled to receive the rack rent of the premises on his or her own account if the premises were let to a tenant at a rack rent.

              Notes
              • Section 79: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).