§ Mr. Whitakerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will introduce regulations prescribing the colours of electrical core wiring; and, in view of the danger of having more than one set of colouring, by what date he intends the international code to be standard.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesThe Electrical Appliances (Colour Code) Regulations were made on 10th March and will be laid before Parliament on 17th March. They require that, from 1st July this year, the cores of three-core flexes fitted to domestic electrical appliances on sale in Great Britain shall be coloured in 373W accordance with the new international colour code: brown for live, blue for neutral and a combination of green and yellow for earth. No other combination of colours will be permitted, except that until 1st July, 1970, flexes coloured in accordance with the old British Standard colour code may continue to be fitted.