Electrical Machinery Regulations, 1988
19. Overhead service connections and overhead service conductors

 

1.    No supplier or user shall require or permit any overhead service connection to be connected to the supplier's mains elsewhere than at a point of support.

2.    Every supplier or user shall cause every part of -

a.    overhead service connections; and

b.    overhead service conductors from one building to another, to consist of insulated wire of a type which complies with a safety standard incorporated for this purpose in these regulations under section 36 of the Act.

3.    No supplier or user shall connect electrical energy to a building by means of overhead conductors unless the connection to the building is by means of a connector box of a type approved by the chief inspector, or by other means similarly approved.