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Electricity Act 1992

Restrictions on electrical work - Testing, certification, and inspection

82: Testing, certification, and inspection

You could also call this:

“Checking and approving electrical work before it's used”

When someone does any electrical work that the rules say needs to be checked, you can’t connect that work to electricity until it’s been tested, approved, and inspected as the rules require. This applies to any electrical work, electrical equipment, or electrical installations.

You’re not allowed to sell or try to sell any electrical work, equipment, or installations that haven’t been tested and approved according to the rules.

If you’re supplying electricity to any electrical work or installation, you need to be sure that it has been inspected and approved as required by the rules.

However, you can connect electrical work, equipment, or installations to electricity, or supply electricity to them, if it’s only for the purpose of testing, inspecting, or approving them as required by the rules.

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Part 9 Restrictions on electrical work
Testing, certification, and inspection

82Testing, certification, and inspection

  1. If any prescribed electrical work is carried out, that work or, as the case may require, the works or electrical installation or electrical appliance in respect of which that work is carried out must not be connected to a power supply unless the testing, certification, and inspection that is required by regulations has been carried out.

  2. A person must not sell, or offer for sale, any works or electrical installation or electrical appliance that has not been tested and certified in accordance with regulations.

  3. A person must not supply electricity to any works or electrical installation unless that person is satisfied that any inspection and certification required in respect of those works or that installation by regulations has been carried out.

  4. This section does not prevent the connection, to any power supply, of any works, electrical installation, or electrical appliance, or the supply of electricity to any works or electrical installation, if that connection or supply is solely for the purposes of carrying out any testing, inspection, or certification required by any regulations.

Notes
  • Section 82: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).