South Australian Numbered Regulations South Australian Numbered Regulations56—Certain electrical installation work and certificates of compliance
(1) The following provisions apply for the purposes of section 61(1) of the Act:
(a) work on an electrical installation or proposed electrical installation that is work of any kind referred to in AS/NZS 3000 or another Australian Standard or Australian/New Zealand Standard called up by AS/NZS 3000 must be carried out, and the installation must be examined and tested—
(i) in accordance with AS/NZS 3000 and any Australian Standard or Australian/New Zealand Standard called up by AS/NZS 3000 and so that the installation complies with any other technical and safety requirements under these regulations; and
(ii) in accordance with the technical installation rules of the operator of the distribution network to which the installation is or is to be connected;
(b) the registered electrical worker personally carrying out the work and any examinations and tests must, when satisfied that the work has, and any examinations and tests have, been carried out in accordance with the standards and requirements referred to in paragraph (a) and before the installation is made available for energisation, complete and sign a certificate of compliance to that effect;
(c) if the worker signing the certificate was employed or engaged to carry out the work or examinations and tests (whether or not together with other work or examinations and tests on the installation) by a licensed electrical contractor or licensed building work contractor, that contractor, or a person who has or had a supervisory role in relation to the worker and who is acting as a duly authorised agent of the contractor, must, being satisfied that the standards and requirements referred to in paragraph (a) have been complied with in relation to the work or examinations and tests, also complete and sign the certificate in accordance with the directions contained in it;
(d) if the work is associated with the making of a connection to a transmission or distribution network, a copy of the certificate (completed and signed in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c)) must be furnished to the operator of the network before the energisation of the work or a part of the work;
(e) if the work was, or examinations and tests were, carried out on behalf of the owner or occupier of the premises concerned (whether under a contract or arrangement made directly between the owner or occupier and the person to whom section 61(1) of the Act applies, under a subcontract or otherwise), a copy of the certificate (completed and signed in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c)) must be furnished to the owner or occupier within 30 days after the installation was made available for energisation;
(f) a copy of the certificate (completed and signed in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c)) must be kept at the business premises of the person to whom section 61(1) of the Act applies or, if that person does not have business premises, at that person's residence for at least 5 years after the installation was made available for energisation.
(2) A certificate of compliance may not be relied on by an owner or operator of an electrical installation under section 60(2) of the Act if the certificate has been issued in relation to the installation by a registered electrical worker who is an employee of the owner or occupier.