AS/NZS 3000:2007: Electrical 
AS/NZS 3000:2018
TBC
installations (known as the 
Electrical installations - Known 
Australian/New Zealand Wiring 
as the Australian/New Zealand 
Rules): including Amendments 1 and  Wiring Rules
2, subject to the following 
modifications:
1. In 4.5.2.3.2, change “warning sign
shall be installed” to “warning sign
shall be installed or fitted in
domestic installations but may be
omitted from all other installations”.
2. In 4.18.1(b) and (c), change “all
live (active and neutral) conductors”
to “all active conductors”.
3. Add a new paragraph to 4.18.2:
“In New Zealand, only electrical
equipment that is directly associated
with the gas supply may be installed
With the exexemption 
in the hazardous areas of a domestic
of clause 1.7.3 
Change 4.18.5: delete 
installation, shown in figure 4.10.”
Reason: the ESR 
the words "lighter 
4. Replace 4.18.3 with “In New
prescribe an 
Change: 
then air" 
Zealand, only electrical equipment 
equipment regime, it is  2.3.2.1.2(b) 
With the 
Reason: So this clause 
(including metering equipment) that 
not up to or 
possiblilty delete 
execption of 
applies to retaliated 
is directly associated with the gas 
appropriate for 
the clause
2.6.2.2.3(b)
With the exemption of clause 2.6.3.3.2 
LPG installations as 
supply may be installed in the 
AS/NZS3000 to 
need to be able to  Ev issue (to 
Exception 2, Bullet point 2.
well. These are mainly 
exclusion zones of a domestic 
prescribe an 
switch the neutral  allow the type b  Exemption no longer needed due to change 
located in the South 
installation in figure 4.11.”
equipment regime. 
for the EV charging and type f rcd)
in technology use
Island. 
under the Official Information Act 1982
Released 

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1982
Act 
8.3.10 paragraph 2 delete the words "either by 
With the exception of Note 4 in 
the operation of the integral test device, or"
8.3.10. 
Information 
In this clause 4.18.5 
EV things
Reason: to ensure RCDs are tested 
the term "hazardous 
Reason: to ensure RCDs are tested to ensure that  to ensure that they are working 
area" has the same 
they are working and that they are not deemed  and that they are not deemed 
meening as "exclusion  unsafe by Regulation 24 of the ESR due to the 
unsafe by Regulation 24 of the 
zone"
trip time. 
ESR due to the trip time. 
Official 
the 
under 
Released 

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