SEPT. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2539

Electrical Wiring Regulations, 1935.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of July, 1935.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Public Works Act, 1928 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make the Regulations herein-after set forth, and doth hereby revoke, as from the coming into force of the Regulations hereby made, the Regulations next hereinafter referred to, and made or enuring under the said Act.

REGULATIONS REVOKED.

REGULATIONS ENACTED.

THESE regulations are divided into Divisions and Parts as follows:—

Division I.—General.

Part 11. Definitions.
Part 12. Application.
Part 13. General.
Part 14. Penalties.
Part 15. Permits.

Division II.—Design I.

Part 21. Electrical Plant.
Part 22. Switchgear.
Part 23. Conductors.
Part 24. Conduit and Casing.
Part 25. Bells.
Part 26. Cable Sockets and Other Connections.
Part 27. Fittings, Appliances, and Accessories.
Part 28. Motors and Control Gear.
Part 29. Lifts.

Division III.—Design II.

Part 31. Heating and Cooking Appliances.
Part 32. Theatres.
Part 33. High and Extra-high Pressures.
Part 34. Earthing.
Part 35. Radio Apparatus.
Part 36. Marking of Accessories, Appliances, Lamps, and Switches.
Part 37. General.

Division IV.—Installation I.

Part 41. Electrical Plant.
Part 42. Switchgear.
Part 43. Circuits and Conductors.
Part 44. Installing Conductors I.
Part 45. Installing Conductors II.
Part 46. Installing Conductors III.
Part 47. Fittings, Appliances, and Accessories.
Part 48. Motors and Control Gear.
Part 49. Electric Lifts.

Division V.—Installation II.

Part 51. Heating and Cooking.
Part 52. Theatres.
Part 53. High and Extra-high Pressures.
Part 54. Earthing.
Part 55. Radio Apparatus.
Part 56. Electric Signs, Outline and Decorative Lighting.
Part 58. General.
Part 59. Additions to and Alterations of Installations.

Division VI.—Inspection and Testing.

Part 61. Inspection.
Part 62. Tests.
Part 63. Certification.

Division VII.—Tables.

DIVISION I.—GENERAL.

PART 11.—DEFINITIONS.

11–01. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Electrical Wiring Regulations, 1935.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the twenty-eighth day following the date of publication hereof in the Gazette.

11–02. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“Accessible” means not permanently closed in by the structure or finish of the building.

“Accessory” means a device such as an adaptor, cut-out, plug, or socket, which is associated with wiring, fittings, switchboards, or appliances; but does not include a switchboard or fitting or appliance as herein defined.

“Adaptor” means a device for electrically connecting a fitting or appliance to a lamp-holder.

“Aerial conductor” means any conductor which is supported above the ground and which, or the covering of which, is directly exposed to the open air.

“All-insulated,” in respect of any accessory, appliance, fitting, or other device, means covered with a non-conducting material in such manner that it is impossible when the device is in use for any person to make accidental or unintentional contact with any metal liable to become alive.

“Appliance” means a device in which electrical energy is converted into light, heat, motion, or any other form of energy, or is substantially changed in its electrical character.

“Approved” means approved by the Chief Electrical Engineer.

“Armoured cable” is one provided with a metallic covering of wires or tapes as a protection against mechanical injury.

“Authorized Inspector” means any Inspector registered under the Electrical Wiremen’s Registration Act, 1925, and employed as such by the electrical supply authority and includes any person appointed by the Chief Electrical Engineer under the aforementioned Act, save that in any case where the electrical supply authority is also the consumer “Authorized Inspector” shall mean a person appointed for the purpose by the Chief Electrical Engineer.

“Cable” may comprise one or more conductors and may be with or without insulating covering and with or without protective coverings; the term “cable” does not include a “flexible cord” as herein defined, but includes any other wire.

“Chief Electrical Engineer” means the person for the time being holding that office in the Public Works Department.

“Conductor” means any wire, cable, bar, or tube used for conducting electrical energy.

“Consumer” means any body or person supplied, or entitled to be supplied, with electrical energy by an electrical supply authority, and includes any person who being under no disability and being competent to receive a supply is willing to enter into a contract with the electrical supply authority for electrical energy to be supplied to him at a point within the electrical supply authority’s area of supply on the terms and subject to the conditions generally prevailing for such contracts within the electrical supply authority’s area of supply.

“Cut-out” comprises all the separate parts—e.g., fuse-link, fuse-carrier, fuse-contacts, fuse-extension, and circuit contacts—which, together with their mountings and base, form the complete protecting-device.

“Damp”: A situation shall be deemed to be damp when moisture is either permanently present or intermittently present to such an extent as to be likely to impair the effectiveness and/or safety of an installation which conforms to the requirements of these regulations for installations not subject to the presence of moisture as aforesaid.

“Distribution board” means any switchboard arranged for the distribution to, and protection and control of, branch circuits fed from a main circuit.