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Amendment 4 (2026) to BS 7671:2018 IET Wiring Regulations.

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I assume it’s now less than a year until the 4th Amendment is published, here on the IET website it says:

Amendment 4 is expected to be published in 2026, until that time electrical installers need to have a copy of Amendment 2 (2022) - the ‘brown book’ and Amendment 3 (2024) (free PDF bolt-on) to be up to date.

https://electrical.theiet.org/bs-7671/updates-to-18th-edition/

So, it is time to start planning ahead.

My first question is it a new book? There seems to be a lot of additional information and possibly changes as well.

My second question is, will there be an update qualification requiring a day on more in a training centre with an exam to be taken?

I have a couple of IET book markers somewhere with some information about this printed on them, but I’m not sure where they are at this moment.

There is a third question, which is when the 19th Edition is being published, which presumably will require new books and an exam, but I assume that won’t be published for at least two years?

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    I seem to recall it was discussed here a few years ago that there can only be 3 amendments, after that a new edition has to be written. Or maybe that has changed since we left the EU.

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    I know that much, Amendment 4 should have been Amendment 3, but an additional amendment was required because of the problems with unidirectional RCBOs being installed upfront of solar and battery inverters, and their circuit boards burning out when the test button was pressed whilst the inverter was running.

    So what should have been Amendment 3 has become Amendment 4.

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  • 0 in reply to alanblaby

      

    I know that much, Amendment 4 should have been Amendment 3, but an additional amendment was required because of the problems with unidirectional RCBOs being installed upfront of solar and battery inverters, and their circuit boards burning out when the test button was pressed whilst the inverter was running.

    So what should have been Amendment 3 has become Amendment 4.

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