IMPORTANT NOTE

This is a superseded edition of the Wiring Rules. You should only purchase it if you specifically want a copy of the AS/NZS 3000:2000 edition. (The three subsequent amendments are supplied with the book.)

New editions of the Wiring Rules were published in 2007 and 2018. To order AS/NZS 3000:2018, click here.

Provides requirements for the selection and installation of electrical equipment, design and testing of electrical installations, especially with regard to the essential requirements for safety of persons and livestock from physical injury, fire or electric shock. Many of the prescriptive work practices contained in previous editions of AS 3000 have been removed and This Standard incorporates internationally accepted practices.

This Standard sets out the minimum requirements for the design, construction and testing of electrical installations, including the selection and installation of electrical equipment forming part of such electrical installations.The requirements are intended to protect persons, livestock and property from electric shock, fire and physical injury hazards that may arise from an electrical installation that is used with reasonable care and with due regard to the intended purpose of the electrical installation.

First published as part of AS CC1-1931.
Revised 1934.
Revised and redesignated in part as AS CC1.1-1940.
Revised 1950.
Revised 1961.
Revised 1969.
Revised and redesignated in part as AS 3000.1-1976.
Revised and redesignated AS 3000-1981.
Revised 1986.
Revised 1991.
Jointly revised and designated as AS/NZS 3000:2000.
Reissued incorporating Amendments Nos 1-3 (July 2003).