National Training Board (Electrician) Regulations 2008
NATIONAL TRAINING BOARD (ELECTRICIAN) REGULATIONS
2008
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BR 54/2008
NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION ACT 2004
2004 :38
NATIONAL TRAINING BOARD (ELECTRICIAN) REGULATIONS
2008
The National Training Board, with the approval of the Minister
responsible for the National Training Board, in exercise of the powers
conferred by section 15(1)(a) of the National Occupational Certification
Act 2004, makes the following Regulations:
Short title
1 These Regulations may be cited as the National Training Board
(Electrician) Regulations 2008.
Interpretation
2 In these Regulations—
"Act" means the National Occupational Certification Act 2004;
“electrical systems” means any type of residential, commercial,
institutional or industrial building or structural electrical
system and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
includes —
(a) fire alarm systems;
(b) signal systems;
(c) control systems;
(d) lighting systems;
(e) heating and cooling systems;
(f) systems providing power;
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(g) data systems;
(h) communication systems;
(i) fibre optic systems;
(j) lightning protection systems;
(k) cathodic protection systems;
(l) grounding and bonding systems;
“electrician” means a person who performs any of the tasks,
activities and functions in these regulations;
“occupation” means the occupation of electrician designated
under the National Training Board (Designation of
Occupations) Regulations 2008.
Tasks, activities and functions of the occupation
3 (1) The tasks, activities and functions of the occupation are the
installation, alteration, repairing, inspection, verification, commissioning,
maintenance and operation of electrical systems and, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, include the following—
(a) erecting, assembling, removing, repairing, replacing and
using scaffolding, handling devices, hoists, slings, ropes,
rigging equipment and related hardware;
(b) using hand tools, power tools, testing equipment and
specialty tools required by the trade;
(c) preparation of holes and openings for conductors,
cables, raceways, boxes and fittings, fasteners and
devices and making panel backboards, box supports and
similar items;
(d) selecting and specifying location and planning layout of
electrical systems, components and controls from
drawings, specifications, contract documents and related
information;
(e) scheduling labour and material requirements for
electrical work; and
(f) testing electrical and electronic equipment and
components for continuity, current, voltage and
resistance;
(g) installing, repairing, examining, operating, removing
replacing, altering, maintaining, connecting, testing,
energizing and cleaning —
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(i) electric surface or flush mounted receptacles,
junctions, outlet and device boxes and
components;
(ii) feeder and distribution busways and busducts;
(iii) lighting fixtures and related electrical equipment
and components;
(iv) dry cell and storage batteries and storage
battery systems;
(v) consumer’s service entrance distribution and
metering equipment for the connection to
overhead and underground supply;
(vi) power transformers, regulators, capacitors,
phase converters and reactors;
(vii) alternating current to direct current conversion
devices and power inverters for conversion of
direct current to alternating current;
(viii) electrical appliances, electrical heating, solar
heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units,
components and controls;
(ix) oil, gas, coal, electric or wood burner control
systems, or any combination of them, and
associated wiring;
(x) infra-red heating units and other types of infra-
red units, controls and components;
(xi) fire alarm systems;
(xii) security systems, intrusion alarms, access
control, card key lock systems or similar
equipment;
(xiii) clock systems, including self-correcting or
synchronized master-slave equipment and
programmable time devices for signals, energy
management, lighting control and similar
installations;
(xiv) sound and visual communications systems;
(xv) fibre optic systems and components;
(xvi) electronic devices, discrete devices, manual or
automatic devices, control devices, limit
switches, pilot or sensing devices, signal devices,
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circuits and indication lamps, panels or similar
equipment and components;
(xvii) relay, static logic or programmable control
components and systems;
(xviii) servo-mechanisms and associated circuitry,
robotic systems and numerically controlled and
computerized numerically controlled systems;
(xix) electric motors, generators, controls, other
electromechanical devices and auxiliary
equipment;
(xx) motor starters, motor speed controllers and
braking systems, direct current solid state
drives, alternating current adjustable frequency
drives, magnetic drive assemblies and controls;
and
(xxi) recording instruments and metering
instruments;
(h) installing, repairing, examining, removing, replacing,
altering, maintaining, terminating, splicing, connecting,
testing, energizing and cleaning—
(i) cable assemblies;
(ii) underground and overhead wiring installations;
(iii) high voltage conductors, cable terminations and
insulation materials;
(iv) lighting fixtures and related electrical equipment
and components;
(v) dry cell and storage batteries and storage
battery systems; and
(vi) electric heat tracing cable assemblies and
controls;
(i) installing, repairing, examining, removing, replacing,
altering, maintaining, connecting, testing, and
cleaning—
(i) raceway systems, including fittings;
(ii) mechanical supports and protection for the
electrical systems; and
(iii) grounding and bonding systems;
(j) terminating and splicing —
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(i) feeder and distribution busways and busducts;
and
(ii) fibre optic systems and components;
(k) terminating —
(i) electric surface or flush mounted receptacles,
junction lighting fixtures and related electrical
equipment and components;
(ii) dry cell and storage batteries and storage
battery systems;
(iii) consumer’s service entrance distribution and
metering equipment for the connections to
overhead and underground supply; and
(iv) loadcenters, panelboards, fused switch and
breaker assemblies, switchboards, switchgear,
protective relays, associated circuitry and other
devices for power distribution;
(l) programming and calibrating —
(i) generator sets, including auto start and transfer
systems for standby use and synchronized
systems and their controls;
(ii) relay, static logic or programmable control
components and systems; and
(iii) servo-mechanisms and associated circuitry,
robotic systems and numerically controlled and
computerized numerically controlled systems;
(m) calibrating—
(i) loadcenter, panelboards, fused switch and
breaker assemblies, switchboards, switchgear,
protective relays, associated circuitry and other
devices for power distribution;
(ii) electrical heating, solar heating, ventilation and
air-conditioning units, components and controls;
(iii) oil, gas, coal, electric or wood burner control
systems, or any combination of them, and
associated wiring;
(iv) electric motors, generators, controls, other
electromechanical devices and auxiliary
equipment;
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(v) motor starters, motor speed controller and
braking systems, direct current solid state
drives, alternating current adjustable frequency
drives, magnetic drive assemblies and
controllers; and
(vi) recording instruments;
(n) lubricating—
(i) loadcenters, panelboards, fused switch and
breaker assemblies, switchboards, switchgear,
protective relays, associated circuitry and other
devices for power distribution;
(ii) generator sets, including auto start and transfer
systems for standby use and synchronized
systems and their controls; and
(iii) electric motors, generators, controls, other
electromechanical devices and auxiliary
equipment;
(o) using any new innovative trade related technological
changes with respect to —
(i) materials or methods; and
(ii) the carrying out of the tasks, activities and
functions referred to in this regulation.
Commencement
4 These Regulations shall come into operation on 31st December,
2009.
Made this 21st day of April, 2008
Chairman
National Training Board
