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• New versions of cited standards come into effect 13th Nov 2026

 

• As part of this update to the ESR’s, some of the wording of the standards has been changed without updating the standards to reflect the edited wording. These can be found by searching “Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2025”.

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Changes made include, but are not limited to:

•Mandatory time-recording testing of RCDs

 

• RCD requirements are effectively unchanged in NZ under new cited version of AS/NZS3000

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• Endorsed classes of registration are now in effect; Electrical workers in the following areas need to hold or work under the supervision of an Electrical worker holding the appropriate endorsement class.

​•Mains parallel generation systems

•Medical cardiac protected areas

•Hazardous areas

•Mining Operations

•Supervise 3 or more people (except Electrical Inspectors)

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• Changes to the way apprentices progress through their apprenticeships, Recognition of prior experience for service technicians wanting to become electricians and EAS (Appliance service technicians) can now disconnect and reconnect to fixed wiring.

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