AS/NZS 3000:2018
Table 3.4
Conductor colours for installation wiring, and the rules for older and sleeved conductors
The conductor colours tool reads Table 3.4 with its notes: the earth, bonding and neutral colours, the recommended active colours, the New Zealand domestic black neutral, and the rules for older and sleeved conductors.
Verified: read against the printed standard, pages 168–169 (PDF 172–173). Checked 1 Oct 2026.
These are the values AmpSize encodes. No text of the standard is reproduced. Verify against the current standard.
13 rows
| Kind | Function | Colours | Recommended | Clause | Page | Excluded | Value | Sleeve |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| function | protective-earth | green-yellow | — | Table 3.4 | 168 | |||
| function | bonding | green-yellow | — | Table 3.4 | 168 | |||
| function | neutral | black, light-blue | — | Table 3.4 | 168 | |||
| function | neutral | black | — | Table 3.4 Note 4 | 168 | |||
| function | active | any-other | red, brown | Table 3.4 Note 2(a) | 168 | green, yellow, green-yellow, black, light-blue | ||
| function | active | any-other | red, white, blue | Table 3.4 Note 2(b) | 168 | green, yellow, green-yellow, black, light-blue | ||
| rule | Table 3.4 Note 1 | 168 | 30, 70 | |||||
| rule | green, yellow, green-yellow | 3.8.1 | 168 | |||||
| rule | Table 3.4 Note 3 | 168 | ||||||
| rule | 3.8.2.1 | 168-169 | ||||||
| older | protective-earth | bare, green | 3.8.2.2 | 169 | green-yellow | |||
| older | active | yellow | 3.8.2.3 | 169 | white | |||
| older | protective-earth | bare | 3.8.3.2(a) | 169 | — |