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Your
questions
answered!
Question
July 2014
energysafe issue 36
Compiled by ESV’s Electricity Technical
Advisor, John Stolk
EnergySafe continues its regular series
featuring some of the questions that
ESV receives on a range of electricity
installation issues, some of them relating
to gas installations. Also provided are
the answers together with references
to the Acts, Standards, Regulations and
Clauses that apply to them.
Standard
Clause
I am installing air-conditioning units in a block You are required to provide 12 Certificates of Electrical Safety;
of 12 flats for the same owner. Can I provide
each flat is an individual occupancy having a different address
the owner one compliance certificate or do I
e.g. Unit 1–25 ESV Rd and Unit 2–25 ESV Rd.
need to provide 12 certificates?
Types of prescribed electrical installation work are listed on the back
of the certificates.
Answer
Electricity
Safety Act
1998
Part 3
Clause 45A
Is the replacement of a switchboard in a flat
prescribed electrical work?
Electricity
Safety
(Installations)
Regulations
2009.
Regulation
238(d)
Yes, the replacement of a switchboard related to the control of an
individual occupier’s portion of a multiple installation is prescribed
electrical work.
Types of prescribed electrical installation work are listed on the
back of the certificates.
What is the differen