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

Sparkingchip

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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    Sparkingchip said:

    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.

    There is no official information at the moment. However, lots of changes usually means the best approach is an updated 'book'.

    Sparkingchip said:
    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?

    We don't know the answer to that question yet. 

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    Thank you.

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    gkenyon said:
    There is no official information at the moment. However, lots of changes usually means the best approach is an updated 'book'.

    Like a toddler weaned from its dummy, it took a long time, but I am now a convert to the electronic version. My brown book is battered and abused but I rarely have need of it now. 
    However, whether the lumberjack squads will be out felling forests for the next iteration remains to be seen. I imagine a large part of hard copy demand is driven by the current exam format so unless a new greener method of assessment can be devised, I guess axes will continue to be sharpened.

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    lyledunn said:
    I guess axes will continue to be sharpened

    Unless we break with tradition and instead of a big red book, we go for a Green one. 

  • 0 in reply to gkenyon
    gkenyon said:
    There is no official information at the moment. However, lots of changes usually means the best approach is an updated 'book'.

    I would perhaps also add, that the DPC for the next Amendment was "the whole book"

    With the information available here: https://electrical.theiet.org/bs-7671/updates-to-18th-edition/ well, I guess that's all the publicly-available information, so our industry rumour mill can eat all this information and provide an answer.

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