Approved electrical articles register

Find out how to check if an electrical item has been tested for safety and approved for sale in NSW.

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In NSW, certain appliances and equipment (known as declared articles) must be approved by NSW Fair Trading or by an approved equivalent, have the appropriate approval mark and follow the relevant safety standard before they can be sold.

The remaining appliances and equipment (known as non-declared articles) must follow the minimum safety requirements contained in Australian Standard AS/NZS 3820:2009 as amended. Declared appliances and equipment certified by schemes administered by other States and Territories and external authorised approval schemes are recognised by NSW.

NSW Fair Trading register of approved articles

This register records information for approvals for declared and non declared electrical articles including:

the name of the approval holder
description of the model to which the approval relates
the date of the approval
the duration of the approval
the model reference code for the model concerned
any modifications to the model approval granted by the Secretary.

Information in this register relates only to articles approved by NSW Fair Trading. To check articles approved by other approval schemes, view the list of external approval schemes.

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NSW Fair Trading's privacy policy contains important information. It is very important that you read it. You will be taken to have accepted that policy (even if you do not follow that link) if you access any page in Fair Trading’s website.

The information contained in this register is restricted to that information which NSW Fair Trading is currently required to maintain under Electricity (Consumer Safety) Regulation 2015. Consequently, NSW Fair Trading disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages and costs which you might incur as a result of using information in the register, or for it being inaccurate or incomplete in any way, and for any reason.

Contact NSW Fair Trading at energyapprovals@customerservice.nsw.gov.au or on 13 32 20 Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 5:00pm for more information.

Check the approved electrical articles register

Regulators and recognised external approval schemes

This is a list of regulators and recognised external approval schemes (independent certifiers authorised by NSW) with links to their public web sites.

Regulators of a State or Territory of Australia (listed below) are empowered by their respective legislation to approve both declared and non declared articles for sale. The independent certifiers listed below are authorised by NSW to approve declared articles only. NSW has not authorised independent certifiers to approve non declared articles.

New South Wales

Conformity Certification Services Pty Ltd T/as EESS Conformity Certification
www.eessconformity.com

Global Mark Pty Ltd
www.global-mark.com.au

Market Access (AUS) Pty Ltd trading as Certification Body Australia
www.certificationbody.com.au

NSW Fair Trading
www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au

Oz Cert Pty Ltd
www.ozcert.com.au

SAA Approvals
www.saaapprovals.com.au

Intertek Inform (entity name SAI Global Pty Ltd)
www.intertekinform.com/en-au/key-standards/electrical-standards/

SGS Australia Pty Ltd
www.sgs.com.au

UL International
www.au-nz.ul.com

TUV Rheinland Australia Pty Ltd
www.tuv.com

Queensland

Electrical Safety Queensland
www.electricalsafety.qld.gov.au

South Australia

Office of the Technical Regulator
www.energymining.sa.gov.au

Victoria

EnergySafe Victoria
www.esv.vic.gov.au

Electrical articles under exemption order

The following exemption orders have been issued under the Gas and Electricity (Consumer Safety) Act 2017.

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