All homes required to have circuit breaker installed from July 1: EMA, HDB

SINGAPORE - In a move to improve safety, all Housing Board flats and private residences will be required to have a residual current circuit breaker installed by July 1, although there will be a two-year grace period to get this done.

The installation of RCCBs has been a requirement in newly-built homes since July 1985. While older homes which were rewired during renovation would have had an RCCB installed, in line with this requirement, a small percentage of homes could still be using their original circuits which rely on fuses to protect against current overload, according to a joint statement by HDB and the Energy Market Authority .

An HDB spokesman said that the RCCB installation exercise will involve 83 one and two-room flats and some 6,400 three-room or larger flats, all of which were built before July 1985.

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