Is worth noting that the UK maintained the edition number when the '16 th Edition ' IEE Regs became British Standard BS7671. It is unclear whether the new standard will be called the '5 th Edition of the Wiring Rules' or the '1 st Edition of IS10101'. In fact when I started my apprenticeship in 1978 the 14 th Edition of the Regs, was part of the curriculum for the electrical apprenticeship courses in Ireland well into the 1990s due to the prevalence of City and Guilds courses here. This book was simply referred to on both sides of the water as 'The Regs'.
However the unofficial 'Wiring Rules' in Ireland for many years were 'The Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings' as published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in the UK. The first edition of the 'Wiring Rules' as we now know them was published in 1976 by the ETCI.
The diagram below shows the evolution of the Wiring Rules in Ireland from the mid-1960s to the present day.įigure 1: Evolution of the Wiring Rules in Ireland (Sample illustration from Guidebook)ĮT 101:2008 was the fourth edition of the Wiring Rules to be published. After more than 12 years in use, the National Rules for Electrical Installations ET101:2008 have been replaced with the new NSAI publication IS 10101:2020, writes Brendan Dervan.
