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Which edition of the Wiring Regulations was the first to have a C&G qualification?

Sparkingchip
How long has there been a City and Guilds qualification to show an understanding of The Wiring Regulations and which was the first edition of the regulations can you be “qualified to”?
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    I think it may have been the 16th Edition but stand to be corrected.


    When the 1st Edition of the 16th was published I went to the IET at Savoy Place and had a one day workshop and a nice sit down lunch. I then went to the Post Office Training Centre in London and did a 5 day intensive course but no external exam or qualification. When I left the PO I did not have the formal qualification so went back to college to do my 16th, I think  C&G 2380. I have done the 17th and 18th since to keep up to date and needed the qualification before | could teach it.
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    I qualified with the C&G 2360 whilst the 16th Edition was current, the head of department said to me that I didn’t really need to do the 16th Wiring Regulations course as I had had qualified under the 16th, but it would be a good thing to do.


    At the time the local sugar beet factory was closing and I ended up doing the course with the guys who were being made redundant and wanted to update their qualification with some having qualified under the 13th Edition!


    I have in mind that the specific City and Guilds Wiring Regulations qualifications came in with the 16th Edition being published along with the regs becoming a British Standard.


    So if that’s the case I have the “full set” 16th Edition, 17th Edition, 17th Edition update and 18th Edition, as I don’t think there was such a thing as a specific 15th Edition Wiring Regulations qualification or any other earlier ones?
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    as I don’t think there was such a thing as a specific 15th Edition Wiring Regulations qualification or any other earlier ones?


    Oh yes there was!


    I did 10 evenings and sat the multiple choice test in July 1984 and was awarded a pass (no higher grade is possible in this assessment) for:


    The certificate for the assessment of the 15th edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations for Electrical Installations


    The long number at the bottom (ending with my date of birth) has /2381/ in it, presumably the course reference. 


    Regards


    BOD
  • Former Community Member
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    I think I have one as well, BoD


    Giving you a few years, I started my apprenticeship in 1981 which was the introduction of the 15th


    From memory, in addition to the 2391's and C certificate, I has a 15th edition certificate circa '84 and a few other bits related to ONC at the same time (I was a student apprentice so did the ONC as extra study during my apprenticeship). 


    I think because of my tender age, all were needed for JIB approved grading (ie more study and less experience) - but I may have that wrong.


    There was defo' a C&G course for the 15th though


    Regards
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    I remember the 13th Edition guys who worked at the sugar beet factory getting the mickey taken out of them for having to “go back to school”, one of them said he thought he had a job for life and had never planned to do any more courses.
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    Geez!


    I supposed those guys I was at college with are in the eighties now.
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    Sparkingchip:

    How long has there been a City and Guilds qualification to show an understanding of The Wiring Regulations and which was the first edition of the regulations can you be “qualified to”?


    I sat and passed the 15th Edition Certificate for the Assessment of the 15th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations for Electrical Installations in Mar/April 1988. The Cert number is 052329/2381/00209/1/d.o.b. I believe that I sat the exam at Milton Keynes Skill Centre.


    Z.


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    Sparkingchip:

    How long has there been a City and Guilds qualification to show an understanding of The Wiring Regulations and which was the first edition of the regulations can you be “qualified to”?


    Well. the C&G A course in Electrical Installation Work would cover regs. generally. My B Course certificate is entitled  The Certificate in Electrical Installation Work (Course B) and has two components.


    Electrical Principles.


    Installation Work & Regulations.


    Dated May/June 1979.


    Z.


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    Yes I did the 16th Edition 2380 but assumed it had been going for years 15th 14th & prior, So Im wrong.

    Not even the College could get the Regs book cos it was only just being printed when we started the course (YelloW Book).

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