Issue 85 July - August 2011

Following a recent review, changes to the way electrical installation work is certified will be introduced and work is now underway refining the architecture of the new regime.
If handled right, new regulations redefining how safety verifications are to be made could open up further opportunity for the industry to drive the delivery of certification. Changes could also enable industry organisations and associations to strengthen their roles and attract more members by providing a more beneficial pathway to compliance.

Last month Brayden Jack wrote the most painful cheque he has ever written and handed it to his solicitors. Normally Jack writes cheques for services rendered to his company, but this time he was paying instead for services he had rendered another company, an electrical contractor, which later went into liquidation.
Thanks to a cruel twist in the law, Jack had to hand over to the contractor’s liquidator all the payments his company, Boss Systems Ltd, received for a sub-contracted data installation they had successfully completed for it some nine months before.