NSW requires a licence or certificate for any electrical wiring work, regardless of what it costs. The credentials are individual and company or partnership contractor licences, the qualified supervisor certificate and the provisional tradesperson certificate; it's the contractor licence that lets a business take on jobs. Building Commission NSW handles licensing for tradespeople. Electrical wiring is specialist work under the Home Building Act 1989, so advertising it needs a current contractor licence, and Fair Trading's guidance for internet, print and other ads lists the licensee's name (or registered business name), licence number, category of work and business phone.
After the work, whoever tested it must submit a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work through the Building Commission NSW eCert portal, as soon as practical and no later than seven days after the test. If the customer's email is entered, the system sends them a copy when the certificate is lodged, and since 1 July 2026 handwritten and PDF forms are no longer accepted. A sentence about this on your site costs nothing and answers a question careful customers have.
Connection work sits under a separate scheme. The NSW Accredited Service Provider scheme accredits businesses to carry out contestable network work. Level 2 covers building or altering service lines between the network and the point of connection, energising new or altered connections, and work on customer-owned network devices, such as the service protection device, at the main switchboard. Once a business is accredited, its individual workers also need authorisation from the local distributor. In Sydney that's one of two networks: Endeavour Energy's franchise area includes council areas such as Blacktown, Parramatta, Penrith, Liverpool, Campbelltown, Fairfield and The Hills, while Ausgrid covers much of the rest of Sydney as well as the Central Coast and the Hunter. The NSW Government runs a public search of accredited providers on its ASP platform, so make sure your site matches what's listed there.
NSW tenancy rules also create regular electrical work. Landlords must check smoke alarms every year, replace them within 10 years of manufacture, and use a licensed electrician to repair or replace hard-wired alarms. For service areas, customers search by region and suburb rather than council: the Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, North Shore, Northern Beaches, Hills District, Greater Western Sydney, Macarthur, St George and the Sutherland Shire. List the regions you work in with the main suburbs under each, and if your Level 2 authorisation covers only one network, line your service area up with it.
We're an Adelaide team on Hutt St, working with NSW businesses by phone and email. We haven't built a site for an electrician yet, and we'd rather say so. What we have built are trade sites with the same working parts, including one for Western Sydney Stump Grinding. You send your licence details, services and suburbs, we send a draft link, and you pay once you approve it.