The instrument is Regulations 002/EL/ENERGY/RURA/2012. The printed title is split. The second line is OCTOBER,2012 ON ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS, with no space after the comma. The deliberations line is in its meeting of 4th October 2012. It is signed Kigali, on the 4th October 2012 by Eugène KAZIGE, Chairperson of the Regulatory Board. Article 19: These Regulations shall come into force six months after the date of approval and signature by the Regulatory Board. That sentence does not name a calendar day. No gazette date is in the PDF. The RURA electricity page fetched today still links this PDF. It is not an Official Gazette text and is not marked as the latest version.
Chapter 4, unnumbered: All Electrical installations should comply with all the provisions contained in the following Rwanda Standards: then RS 565-1: 2011 on Electrical Wiring of Premises - Part 1: Low-voltage Installations, RS 474-1: 2011 for Power Installations exceeding 1kV a.c. – Part 1: Common rules, and Any other relevant standards issued by the Rwanda Bureau of Standards. The source prints a.c. with periods. Those standards are not called the law. This text does not name IEC 60364, HD 60364, or a national adoption of either. Article 17: All prior provisions contrary to these regulations are hereby repealed. No earlier instrument is named. The text sets no conductor cross-section. millimetre, mm, and mm² do not appear.
Ministerial Order N°03/CAB.M/019 of 15/04/2019, Official Gazette no.Special of 16/04/2019, is a building order, not a replacement of the 2012 regulations. Signed Kigali, on 15/04/2019, by GATETE Claver, Minister of Infrastructure, after Cabinet approval on 03/04/2019. Article 41: This Order comes into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Rwanda. Article 40 repealed exactly: Ministerial Order n° 04/Cab.M/015 of 18/05/2015 determining urban planning and building regulations as amended to date and all prior legal provisions contrary to this Order are repealed. The fetched gazette is not marked as a later consolidated version. No later amendment of this order was in the pages fetched.
Annex II, the Rwanda Building Code, says it was given legal effect by the Ministerial Order determining Urban Planning and Building Regulations and None of these requirements is replaced or changed by this Code. Clause 1.2.1.1: The provisions of this Code shall not be deemed to nullify any provisions of other Rwanda laws. Clause 1.2.1.3 says Rwanda Standards take precedence over international referenced standards as and when they are developed, adopted and/or adapted and that users shall ensure they apply appropriate parts of the latest versions of the standards in force. The code is not labelled a replacement of the 2012 regulations.
Section 4.11.3: In the planning and designing the electrical wiring installation, considerations shall be made by a competent electrical engineer to provide an installation that will prove adequate for its intended purpose be reliable, safe and efficient. Planning and designing the electrical installation of any building shall depend on particular class and category of building and occupancy in accordance with RS 116-1 and luminaries required in accordance with RS IEC 60598-2-1. Installation, design, and installation of every fixed electrical appliance shall comply with the requirements of RS IEC 60364-5-52 for efficiency and safe under operation. Installation, design and erection of earthing systems on electrical installation and any metalwork not intended to conduct electricity, shall be earthed in accordance with RS IEC 60364-5-54. The reference list also has RS IEC 60364-5-54 as Earthing arrangement and protective conductor. The code names those RS IEC 60364 parts. It does not name HD 60364. It does not say those parts are the law. Conductors, switches and accessories shall be of a size capable of carrying, without their respective ratings being exceeded, the maximum current that will normally flow through them. The conductors used in electric power and lighting circuits shall comply with the requirements given in RS EAS 114. millimetre and mm² do not appear. mm appears for where cables buried behind walls are placed: they shall be within 150mm from the top of the walls and 150mm from the edge of the wall. That is not a conductor cross-section.
Ministerial Instructions N° 21/2013 of 03/07/2013, Official Gazette nº 31 of 05/08/2013, signed Kigali, on 03/07/2013. Article 10 says they come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette. The definitions say For the purpose of this Law. Article 3: All Rwanda Standards appearing in the list herewith attached are hereby declared compulsory. Article 4: A natural person, corporate body or business enterprise shall not manufacture, import, export or sell the commodity and product covered by compulsory standards regulated by these instructions without providing a proof of compliance to essential requirements of the standard to the competent authority. That duty is about a commodity or product, not how an installation is made. The annex names RS 565-1 and, with the printed spacing, RS IEC 60364 – 7 – 701, RS IEC 60364 – 7 – 704, and RSIEC 60364 – 7 – 712. It does not name HD 60364. Article 9: Instructions n°02/2005 of 19/05/2005 ot Rwanda Bureau of Standards declaring compulsory Rwanda Standards are hereby repealed. The word is printed ot, not of.
Ministerial Instructions N°23/2015 of 18/03/2015 modify and complement the annex to the 2013 instructions. The fetched annex lists food, chemistry, textile, steel, and water standards. None of those entries is IEC 60364, HD 60364, RS 565, or RS 116. It does not say it repealed an electrical standard.
Sources: https://www.rura.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/RURA/Documents/Sectors/Energy/Regulatory_Instruments/Energy_Regulations_and_Guidelines/ELECTRICAL_INSTALLATIONS_REGULATIONS.pdf https://www.rura.rw/sectors/energy/sub-sectors-and-services/electricity https://www.rha.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/RHA/Publications/Orders/New_building_and_Urban_planning_code.pdf https://www.rsb.gov.rw/fileadmin/Standard_Publications/Gazetted_Standards/Mandatory_National_Standards_as_published_in_Official_Gazette_no_31_of_05_08_2013.pdf https://www.rsb.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Laws/MINISTERIAL_INSTRUCTIONS_N__23_2015__OF_18_03_2015_MODIFYING_AND_COMPLEMENTING_THE_MINISTERIAL_INSTRUCTIONS_N__21_2013_OF_03_07_2013_DECLARING_COMPULSORY_RWANDAN_STANDARDS.pdf
