Only a registered person may issue an electric fence system certificate in the form of Annexure 1, after having satisfied himself or herself by means of an inspection and test that -
(a) the new electric fence system complies with the provisions of regulation 12(1); (b) an electric fence system which existed prior to the incorporation of the relevant health and safety standard contemplated in regulation 12(1) into these Regulations complies with the general safety principles of such standard; or
(c) an electric fence system which existed prior to the incorporation of the relevant health and safety standard contemplated in regulation 12(1) into these Regulations and to which extensions or alterations have been effected, that -
(i) the affected part of the system complies with the general safety principles of such standard, and
(ii) the extensions or alterations effected comply with the provisions of regulation 12(1):
Provided that a user of a pet-shock system or strip-grazing electric fence system, who is competent to install such a system, may issue an electric fence certificate for a pet-shock system or strip-grazing electric fence system, as the case may be.