The instrument is the Electricity Control Board Technical Rules, General Notice No. 47 of 2016, Government Gazette No. 5950, Windhoek, 16 February 2016. The Electricity Control Board, under section 3(4) of the Electricity Act, 2007 (Act No. 4 of 2007), and with the approval of the Minister of Mines and Energy, made rules with regard to technical matters in the electricity industry as set out in the Schedule. The signature line is J. Nandago, Chairperson of the Electricity Control Board, Windhoek, 11 September 2015. The rules do not state a calendar commencement date. Rule 35(1): Where these rules place a duty or obligation on a licensee, customer or any other person, that duty or obligation does, unless otherwise stated in these rules, only become effective six months after the date of commencement of these rules. The fetched rules contain no repeal or revocation clause.
Rule 1: “electrical installation” means the entire electrical installation on a customer’s premises, including all material, equipment and appliances used or intended to be used for or in connection with the provision of electricity to the customer’s premises, but does not include the metering installation or controlling devices or any part of the connection installed by a licensee; Rule 8(4): Where the licensee provides a connection to a customer’s premises, it is the responsibility of the customer, at the customer’s expense, to provide, install and maintain, in accordance with these rules and the laws applicable to the wiring of premises, the electrical installation on the customer’s premises. Rule 9(4): The electrical installation and all other electrical equipment of the customer must be of a design and constructed in line with good industry practices, properly installed and maintained by the customer, and must in all respects comply with the laws and standards applicable to the wiring of premises. The rules name no wiring standard. They do not name IEC 60364, HD 60364, or a national adoption of either. They do not use millimetre, mm, or mm², and they set no conductor cross-section.
Standards Act 18 of 2005, section 20(6): Compliance with a Namibian standard set, established and issued by the NSI under this section is not compulsory, but compliance with such a standard may be declared compulsory by the Minister by regulation. The fetched NSI notices are notices that a document is a Namibian standard. None of them is a ministerial regulation declaring a wiring standard compulsory.
General Notice No. 54, Gazette No. 5425, Windhoek, 14 March 2014, signed Windhoek, 18 January 2014, lists the number split over two lines, NAMS/SADCSTAN/SANS 10142- then 1:2014, described as The wiring of premises Part 1: Low Voltage installations, to be Namibian standards. It is not called the law.
General Notice No. 163, Gazette No. 7521, Windhoek, 30 April 2021, signed Windhoek, 1 April 2021, lists NAMS/ESI LVEIWS 001: ed 1.0 2021 Namibian low voltage electrical installation wiring standard (LVEIWS), to be Namibian Standard. The notice says These standards cancels and replaces the existing editions of the corresponding standards which has been technically revised. It does not name which edition, and it does not name IEC 60364. It is not called the law.
General Notice No. 568, Gazette No. 8987, Windhoek, 31 July 2026, signed Windhoek, 13 July 2026, withdraws standards as gazetted in Government Gazettes Nos. 5425 and 5865, with effect from publication. It says These standards are cancelled and replaced by their corresponding latest versions. The schedule names NAMS/SADCSTAN/SANS then 10142-1: 2013, described as The wiring of premises Part-1: Low Voltage installations. The 2014 entry splits the number as 10142- and 1:2014, and writes Part 1 with no hyphen. The 2026 entry writes 10142-1: 2013 and Part-1. The schedule does not name the replacement. General Notice No. 569 in the same gazette does not list a wiring-of-premises standard.
General Notice No. 522, Gazette No. 8975, Windhoek, 15 July 2026, signed Windhoek, 22 June 2026, issues NAMS 60364-7-722:2026 IEC 60364-7-722:2018 Low-voltage electrical installations – Part 7-722: IEC 60364-7-722:2018 Requirements for special installations or locations – Supplies for electric vehicles, to be Namibian standards. That is one IEC part for electric-vehicle supplies. It is not called the law. HD 60364 is not named.
Government Notice No. 82 of 2025, Gazette No. 8613, Windhoek, 1 April 2025, signed Windhoek, 10 February 2025, amends the Electricity Regulations: Administrative, Government Notice No. 13 of 16 February 2011, as amended by Government Notice No. 158 of 22 July 2020. It deletes regulation 7A and the Annexure row for regulation 7A. It does not amend General Notice No. 47 of 2016.
Sources: https://www.lac.org.na/laws/2016/5950.pdf https://www.lac.org.na/laws/annoSTAT/Standards%20Act%2018%20of%202005.pdf https://www.lac.org.na/laws/2014/5425.pdf https://www.lac.org.na/laws/2021/7521.pdf https://www.lac.org.na/laws/2026/8987.pdf https://www.lac.org.na/laws/2026/8975.pdf https://www.lac.org.na/laws/2025/8613.pdf
