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Regulation 10 Protective screens

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  • reg.3(1) (defn of British Standard Requirements) added reg.3(1) (defn of Institution Electrical Engineers Regs) revoked by Electricity Supply 1992 reg.2(a) of SI 2961, reg.2(b)
(1)

Conductors which are placed below ground and are not connected with earth shall be insulated from earth otherwise than by a support and protected in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

The protection referred to in paragraph (1) shall comprise—

(a)

in respect of joints or terminations of a conductor in a low voltage system, some form of mechanical protection; and

(b)

in respect of any other part of any conductor, an electrically continuous metallic screen connected with earth,

so placed as to ensure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, any tool or device likely to be used in the vicinity shall make contact with that protection or screen before it can make contact with that conductor.

(3)

A supply neutral conductor may be combined in a single device or arrangement with either or both of—

(a)

a metallic screen or armouring;

(b)

other protective material.