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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?

  • 0 in reply to gkenyon
    gkenyon said:
    When you write down the cover colours and try to order them, there is no pattern at all really.

    This is certainly possible to do, if you have prior Editions, or can find pictures of them on-line.

    The information for cover colours on page 12 of BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 only starts at 15th Edition, but it doesn't mean coloured covers were not used earlier ... coloured covers were in fact used from the 8th Edition onwards.

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    Does it matter? Save that as I recall, the exams are for new editions rather than amendments.

  • 0 in reply to Chris Pearson
    Chris Pearson said:
    Does it matter? Save that as I recall, the exams are for new editions rather than amendments.

    Point of contention (first time this came to light for "not having a recent amendment" of an Ed), is that if you had '16th Ed' prior to a certain date, before taking '17th Ed' you had to do a longer course.

    This has, of course, nothing to do with the contents of BS 7671, but views in industry as to which version of which qualification makes one "competent" [as   pointed out in an earlier post, even if the qualification in question is targetted at "how do I look things up in the standard?"]. Of course, this applies "universally" ... including those who are involved in developing the standard !

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    gkenyon said:
    views in industry as to which version of which qualification makes one "competent"

    Driven, no doubt, by the registered competent persons' schemes.

    I qualified on 17th Edn. When 18th came along, as I recall, the "strong advice" was to do a 1 day course, which finished with the C&G exam. However, for less money, time, and effort, it was possible just to turn up for the exam

    That was Stroma for you. If registration is conditional on having the C&G qualification for the current exam, and only the schemes run the exams at the end of a course, it begins to look like a monopoly, or at least a duopoly.

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