South Australia is not casual about electrical work, even when a Facebook group is. Prescribed work belongs to a licensed electrician. The licence is searchable. The finished job should produce a Certificate of Compliance that can be shown to an insurer, a conveyancer or a tenant. The wiring rules — AS/NZS 3000 and the documents that sit beside it — are not a vibe. They are the reason a bathroom socket is where it is, and the reason a shed sub-board is not a jam jar of connectors.
This hub is the civic one. Checking an electrician’s licence walks through Consumer and Business Services and the details that should match the van. Certificates of Compliance explains what the paper is, when you should see it, and what a missing certificate means at sale. AS/NZS 3000 in plain English is a homeowner’s map, not a substitute for the standard. Owner-builder electrical work is the piece we send to people who have just bought a nail gun and a roll of TPS.
We are a journal, not a regulator. The Office of the Technical Regulator and CBS remain the authorities. We translate, we do not deputise. If a guest writer mentions a paid training product, it will be marked sponsored, as the write for us page requires. For the practical faults that make these rules feel urgent, start at safety and come back here before you pay a deposit.
