Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTRICITY (WIRING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 20

Periodic inspection, testing and certification

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(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 (Classification) Regulations (
        Cap 295 sub. leg.); and

   (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 $650 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) (Enacted 1990)