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406E PDFTitle:ELECTRICITY (WIRING) REGULATIONSGazette Number:10 of 2005
Regulation:20Heading:Periodic inspection, testing and certificationVersion Date:08/07/2005

(1) An owner of a fixed electrical installation located in one of the following type of premises shall have it inspected, tested and certified at least once every 12 months-

        (a) a place of public entertainment as defined in the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance (Cap 172) other than a sea-going vessel;
        (b) premises for the manufacturing or storing of dangerous goods listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Goods (Application and Exemption) Regulations (Cap 295 sub. leg. A); and (10 of 2005 s. 213)
        (c) premises with a high voltage fixed electrical installation fed directly from a high voltage supply.
(2) An owner of a low voltage fixed electrical installation that has an approved loading exceeding 200A, single or three phase, at nominal low voltage, that is in a factory or industrial undertaking, as those terms are defined in section 2 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap 59), shall, unless the factory or industrial undertaking is a premises referred to in subregulation (1), have the installation inspected, tested and certified at least once every 5 years.
(3) An owner of a low voltage fixed electrical installation that has an approved loading exceeding 100A, single or three phase, at nominal low voltage, that is in premises other than those referred to in subregulation (1) or (2), shall have the installation inspected, tested and certified at least once every 5 years.
(4) An owner of a low voltage fixed electrical installation located in one of the following type of premises shall have it inspected, tested and certified at least once every 5 years-
        (a) a hotel as defined in section 2 of the Hotel Proprietors Ordinance (Cap 158);
        (b) a hospital or maternity home, as those terms are defined in section 2 of the Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Maternity Homes Registration Ordinance (Cap 165);
        (c) a school as defined in section 3 of the Education Ordinance (Cap 279);
        (d) premises of the institutions listed in section 2 of the Education Ordinance (Cap 279);
        (e) a child care centre that is registered under the Child Care Services Ordinance (Cap 243); and (32 of 2000 s. 36)
        (f) premises that the Director may, by notice posted to or served on the owner, specify that he considers could cause great harm in the event of an electrical accident.
(5) The owner shall deliver a certificate prepared under this regulation to the Director for endorsement within 2 weeks after the date of the certificate.
(6) The owner shall submit an endorsement fee of $695 for each certificate delivered to the Director under subregulation (5). (L.N. 451 of 1993; L.N. 602 of 1994; L.N. 33 of 1997; L.N. 22 of 1998; L.N. 135 of 1998; L.N. 352 of 2000)
(Enacted 1990)