AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE

PRACTICE OF ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING IN THE PHILIPPINES
AND INSTITUTING HIGHER
STANDARDS OF REGULATION IN
THE LICENSING AND
REGISTRATION OF ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING PRACTITIONERS
EXPLANATORY NOTE
For many Filipinos, life would grind to a halt without lights,
charged gadgets, TV sets, refrigerators and microwave ovens.
Homes, hospitals and offices are reliant on electricity and, on
a grand scale, our country’s macroeconomic growth and
development is dependent on the effective and safe
transmission of energy throughout industries and our
communities.
 It is apparent that the chain from power generation to
electrical installation needs to be supported, monitored and
held up to rigorous standards of quality and reliability. While a
current regulatory framework is in place for electrical
practitioners in the country, elevating the standards of the
profession and ensuring that our Filipino electrical
practitioners can build a promising career in the Philippines.

With the Philippine Electrical Engineering Bill, we hope to

enhance learning, licensing, testing and practicing in the field
of electrical engineering.
 This proposal also endeavors to bridge the gap between
education and employment by strengthening the relationship
between the academe and the industry to make certain that
our graduates are well equipped for the jobs available in the
market.

This Bill intends to reaffirm the value of our Filipino

electrical practitioners by empowering them with education
and skills development at par with global standards and
assuring them of a fulfilling career.
This proposal introduces the following requirements:

1. A Declaration of Policy

2. Wider Definition of Terms Used as Reference in

Regulating the Practice of the Electrical Profession,
the proposed new law manifests more
comprehensive definition of terms surrounding the
profession.
 3. More Substantive Provisions on the Field of Practice of
Responsible Character, which refers to the high level of
experience, confidence and a sound understanding of
accountability over the practitioner’s work whether design,
execution or implementation of projects or operation and
maintenance, as guaranteed safe to lives and the preservation
of properties to include the responsibility over the safety
and well being of the personnel under the practitioner’s
supervision.
 4. Clear mandate on “Who Are Authorized to Practice” the
Electrical Profession.

5. Clear mandate on “Who Are Authorized to Teach”

Electrical Engineering Courses in Colleges and Universities.

6. The Much Wider Employability of Registered Master

Electricians and Registered Electrical Engineers as embodied
in the Provisions for “Minimum Complement of Licensed
Practitioners” in Power Plants, Industrial Plants,
Transmission/Distribution Systems, Commercial Complexes
and Construction Projects.
 7. The Institutionalization of the Philippine Electrical Code
and Philippine Recognized International Standards as
Foundations for Quality Electrical Practices that are
Committed to Public Safety, Preservation of Lives and
properties.

8. The Institutionalization of Employing Registered Master

Electricians and Registered Electrical Engineers in Government
Units for the enforcement of the law considering that it will
ultimately redound to the safety of lives and preservation of
properties.
 9. The Institutionalization of Continuing Professional
Development amongst Electrical Practitioners to Ensure Lifelong
Technology Advancement and Personal Capabilities.

10. The Institutionalization of a “Culture of Quality Services”

amongst Electrical Practitioners in the Fields of Design, Installation,
Operation and Maintenance.

11. New Provisions for Foreigner – Practitioners Authorized to

Practice in the Country.

12. More Substance in the Licensure Examinations to Ensure a

Pool of Quantity Licensed Electrical Professionals.
 13. New Provisions on the Responsibility and Accountability of
Electrical Practitioners over their Work, and the Imposition of Penal
Provisions to Violators of this Law to Include Violations by Impostors of
the Profession.

14. Provision to give opportunity to TESDA graduates to take the

Registered Master Electricians licensure examination.

15. Provision that is aligned with the K-12 program of the

Government wherein graduates have the opportunity to become a
Registered Master Electricians.
 16. The level of License Grades is Intended for Filipino
Electrical Practitioners to become comparable globally.

In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is earnestly

sought.
ARTICLE I
TITLE AND DEFINITION OF TERMS
SECTION 1. Short Title – This Act shall be known as the
“Electrical Engineering Act.”

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy – The State recognizes the

importance of electrical practitioners in national building.
Towards this end, the State fosters, develops and nurtures a
pool of proficient and quality electrical engineering
practitioners whose standards of practice shall be outstanding,
honorable and globally competitive.
The state shall provide rational regulatory measures that are
responsive to the growing needs of the electrical engineering
profession considering the advances in technology and
globalization.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms – As used in this act:

a.) Electrical Engineering refers to the profession of the art

and science of conceptualizing, planning, designing and
creating electrical systems to include but not limited to the
operation and maintenance of equipment and machinery,
electrical processes of all types of buildings, commercial
complexes, factories or industrial plants, electrical plants,
electric locomotives, watercrafts: construction and
commissioning of electrical projects, manufacturing and
distribution of electrical products, teaching electrical subjects;
and other related facilities or processes, in accordance with
the principles of safety and reliability.
b.) Practice of Electrical Engineering refers to the professional
act in responsible character of performing electrical
engineering services in the form of:

1) Electrical Consultancy Service in the form of

authoritative assessments, investigations, examination,
appraisal of electrical system designs or existing systems,
specifications and constructions processes; providing oral or
written advice and direction on technical issues; decisions
and recommendation or evaluation on technical audits, in
depth system analysis; and other services requiring expert
electrical engineering knowledge, engineering calculations,
and application of engineering data and principles;
 2) Professional Design Service refers to the preparation of
electrical plans, calculations, designs, studies, specifications
and estimates for electrical systems as: Generating plants
including conventional and renewable, transmission and
distribution systems, power substations, electrical equipment
and machinery, network system protection, switchboards and
switchgears; electrical systems of dwellings or residences,
buildings, facilities, industrial plants and factories, industrial
parks, commercial complexes, mining operations, airports,
seaports, economic zones, watercrafts, electric locomotives
and other related electrical works, processes or projects;
 Professional Design Service encompasses the performance
of the processes in the creation or production of:

(i) schematic or conceptual design phase,

(ii) design development phase,
(iii) procurement specifications and tender
documents,
(iv) construction planning details,
(v) consultancy services in actual construction as
owner’s representative;
to include to the preparation of preliminary, technical,
economic and financial studies of a project; preparation of
electrical work performance parameters, materials and
equipment specifications, scopes of work, technical terms of
reference, bill of materials, cost estimates, bidding and tender
documents; construction and project management, providing
responsible direction or management over the construction,
erection, expansion, demolition, renovation, remodeling,
alteration, restoration of all electrical systems as defined in
this Act;
 3) Management, supervision or taking charge of the
construction, erection, installation, alteration, testing and
commissioning of projects involving all kinds of electrical
systems.
 4) Management, supervision or taking charge of the
tending, operation, maintenance and control of electrical
systems of electric power plants, grid systems, switchyards,
transmission and distribution systems, network protection and
monitoring systems, electric utilities, watercrafts, electric
locomotives, factories and industrial complexes, commercial
buildings, government buildings, institutional buildings, health
care facilities, airports and seaports and all other facilities
involving electrical processes;
 5) Management, supervision or taking charge of the
manufacture, fabrication, repair, testing and commissioning of
electrical components, equipment and devices including
switchgears, switchboards, control gears, transformers,
generators, electric motors, controllers, appliances, lighting
fixtures, apparatuses and other related processes;
 6) Management, supervision or taking charge of the sale,
supply distribution of electrical equipment including industrial
equipment and it’s control systems, controllers and devices,
power electronics, industrial robotics, instrumentation and
automation; and other related equipment or components
requiring application of electrical engineering data and
principles, interpretation of technical specifications of
electrical products;
 7) Teaching of basic and professional electrical engineering
subjects in government recognized engineering schools
including allied sciences, the Electrical Engineering Law, the
Philippine Electrical Code and international Electrical
Standards and their applications into the electrical industry;

8) Employment in national, provincial or local government

units/agencies or in government owned and controlled
corporations, government financial institutions as a
Professional Electrical Engineer, Registered Electrical Engineer
or Registered Master Electrician if the nature and character of
his work is in line with the profession requiring knowledge and
expertise of electrical engineering.
c) Electrical Practice of Responsible Character – refers to the
high level of experience, confidence and a sound
understanding of accountability over the practitioner’s work
whether design, execution or implementation of projects or
operation and maintenance, as guaranteed safe to lives and
the preservation of properties to include the responsibility
over the safety and well being of the personnel under the
practitioner’s supervision.
d) Authorized Electrical Engineering Practitioner refers to a
person professionally and academically qualified, registered
and licensed to practice electrical engineering as defined in
this Act, with a Certificate of Registration of Certificate by the
Professional Regulatory Board of Electrical Engineering and a
valid professional identification card issued by the Professional
Regulations Commission as PEE, REE or RME.

e) Consulting Electrical Engineer refers to a highly

experienced, academically qualified, recognized by a
professional organization, licensed and authorized PEE, with
outstanding proficiency in specialized fields of Electrical
Engineering, provides expert Consultancy services as defined
in this act;
f) Electrical System Designer refers to the authorized PEE
having a service agreement with a client as defined in this Act,
who is directly responsible for the authorship of plans and
designs of the Electrical System of a Project-on-Record with
the office of the building official and who shall assume the civil
liability for the plans, specifications and contract documents
bearing his signature and seal;
g) Electrical Practitioner-In-Charge refers to the authorized
Electrical Engineering Practitioner registered and licensed to
practice Electrical Engineering, who is directly responsible for
the supervision or taking charge of the operation, tending and
maintenance of electric plans, electric power transmission and
distribution systems, substations and switching stations,
industrial plants and complexes, commercial buildings and
complexes, electric locomotives and watercrafts and other
facilities involving electrical systems subject to limitations as
defined in this Act;
h) Electrical Project-In-Charge refers to the authorized
Electrical Engineering Practitioner registered and licensed to
practice Electrical Engineering, who is directly and
professionally responsible in the supervision of electrical
construction in faithful compliance of the design plans on
record for a Project on Record with the Office of the Building
Official, and who shall be liable and accountable for the civil
liability over the quality workmanship of the installation
process;
i) Electrical System refers to a facility or structure or process
composing of an arrangement of sets, arrays or assemblage of
electrical machinery, equipment, devices; interconnected,
interdependent and integrated in combination with each
other that are configured to carry out an electrical function or
operation such as generating, supplying, transmitting,
distributing, conveying or transforming power in providing or
utilizing electric energy services.
For purposes of this Act, electrical systems cover the
following:

(i) Electrical System for Dwelling and Residences – includes

service entrance conductors, service equipment, feeders and
sub feeders, distribution panelboards, circuit conductors,
grounding conductors, utilization devices, appliances, lighting
fixtures, wirings and accessories, branch circuit protection,
back up generating facilities and control system; and other
related system components within a dwelling or residence;
 (ii) Electrical Systems of Buildings and Commercial
Complexes – includes the customer owned and operated
primarily substations, vaults, power centers or secondary
substations, on site generation facilities, distribution
switchgears, switchboards, distribution boards;
interconnections with other buildings within a complex;
feeders, sub feeders, system protection, motor control
centers, control centers, power factor compensation
equipment, metering and sub metering, grounding systems,
lightning protection, indoor and outdoor lighting and
illumination; uninterrupted power supplies, programmable
logic controllers, building electronic/electrical control systems;
 electrical processes for: ventilating and air conditioning
systems, personnel conveyance systems, materials conveying
systems; power supply, distribution boards, power panels and
branch circuits for communication, telecommunications,
telephone, fire alarms, building management systems, in
building DC systems and other facilities involving electrical
processes;
 (iii) Electrical Systems of Factories and Industrial Complexes
- includes the customer owned and operated primarily
substations, vaults power centers or secondary substations, on
site generation facilities, control and data acquisition centers,
distribution switchgears, switchboards, distribution centers,
control centers, feeders, sub feeders, system protection,
lighting and illumination, electrical sub systems for ventilating
and air conditioning, personnel conveyance systems, materials
handling and conveying systems; interconnection with other
buildings or plants within a complex, grounding systems,
lightning protection systems; electrical sub systems for process
equipment and machineries to include but not limited to:
 uninterrupted power supplies, programmable controllers,
industrial electronic/electrical control systems
instrumentation and automation systems, power electronics
and industrial robotics; distribution boards, power panels,
panelboards and branch circuits for communication,
telecommunications, telephone, fire alarm, inter building
management systems and other facilities involving electrical
processes;
 (iv) Electrical Systems of Power plants – includes the array or
assemblage of power generators, their control system and
protection, take off substations, power centers, supervisory
control and data acquisition centers, distribution switchgears,
switchboards, in plant DC systems, power circuit breakers, motors
and motor control centers, interconnections with other power
plants, or with the grid, short circuit abatement systems, system
protection, interconnection and auxiliaries, grounding systems,
lightning protection systems; industrial electronics control system,
instrumentation and automation system, distribution boards, sub
systems for lighting and illumination, ventilating and air
conditioning, materials handling and conveying systems;
distribution boards and branch circuits for communication,
telephone, fire alarm, building management systems and other
facilities involving electrical systems;
 (v) Power Transmission System – refers to an electrical process so
arranged, schemed and functioning to carry out the conveyance and
delivery of bulk power over short, medium or long spans of distances
through a series of structure arrangement of towers, or steel poles
with assemblages of high voltage, extra high voltage, and high
voltage direct current transmission, electrical equipment that include
but not limited to power substations, switching or power factor
compensating stations; all containing power switches, disconnects,
circuit breakers, transformers, regulators, power capacitors, short
circuit current abatement equipment, DC systems, switchgears,
switchboards, control systems, supervisory; control and data
acquisition centers; with the power lines installed whether overhead,
underground or underwater, in alternating or direct current form,
auxiliaries and accessories interconnected, interdependent and in
combination with each other;
 (vi) Power Distribution System – refers to an electrical process
so arranged, schemed and functioning to carry out delivery of
power over short or medium spans of distances near or at the
load centers through a series of structure arrangement of steel,
concrete or wooden poles, with assemblages of medium or low
voltage equipment and components that include but not limited
to power substations all containing power switches, disconnects,
power centers, circuit breakers, power transformers, regulators,
power factor compensation equipment, DC systems, short circuit
current abatement equipment, control systems, supervisory
control and data acquisition centers, feeders, sub feeders,
distribution centers; with power lines whether installed
overhead, underground or underwater; auxiliaries and
accessories inter connected, interdependent and in combination
with each other;
 (vii) Electrical Systems for Watercrafts - includes electric
propulsion system, power generators and their control
systems and protection, supervisory control and data
acquisition centers, distribution switchgears, switchboards,
direct current (DC) systems, power circuit breakers, motors
and motor control centers, system protection, interconnection
to auxiliaries, grounding systems, lightning protection systems,
instrumentation and automation systems, distribution boards,
sub-systems for lighting and illumination, ventilating and air-
conditioning, electric cranes, materials handling and
conveying systems; panel boards and branch circuits for
communication, telephone, fire alarm, building management
systems, and other facilities involving electrical systems within
the watercraft;
 (viii) Electrical Systems for Electric Locomotives - includes
power generators and their control systems and protection,
supervisory control and data acquisition centers, distribution
switchgears, switchboards, direct current (DC) systems, power
circuit breakers, motors and motor control centers, system
protection, interconnection to auxiliaries, grounding systems,
lightning protection systems, instrumentation and automation
systems, distribution boards, sub-systems for lighting and
illumination, ventilating and air-conditioning, electric cranes,
materials handling and conveying systems; panel boards and
branch circuits for communication, telephone, fire alarm,
building management systems, and other facilities involving
electrical systems within the electric locomotive;
j) Electrical System Design refers to the professional design
service of conceptualizing, creating and developing plans and
designs for electrical systems involving engineering
calculations to include the choice of system configurations:
fault and load flow analysis, sizing, arc flash, harmonics and
voltage drop. It includes selection and specifications of
equipment, system protection and grounding systems,
detailing of the requirements for control systems, protective
device discrimination and other related processes in
accordance with Philippine-recognized Codes and Standards
applied into the design of Electrical Systems.
k) Service Agreement means a duly notarized written contract
or equivalent public instrument stipulating the scope of
services of an electrical work or project to be rendered by the
authorized electrical engineering practitioner for a client,
guaranteeing compensation of such services.

l) Electrical Works or Projects refers to the development of

engineering plans, drawings and designs or the actual
construction, installation, erection and execution of electrical
projects in progress, testing and commissioning to include
alteration and expansion of power and electrical systems and
other electrical structures.
m) Electrical Equipment or Machinery includes all power
equipment and components such as electric generators
(conventional and renewable), power substations, transmission and
distribution system equipment and accessories, control centers,
electric drive motors and control systems, power electronics,
industrial robotics and automation systems to include industrial
programmable controllers, as accessories for generators, furnaces,
heat exchangers, manufacturing processes, materials handling
processes, heating, air-conditioning, ventilating, and refrigeration
systems, pollution abatement and environmental control system,
pressure vessels, printing machines, electrical equipment of all kinds
of mills, mining operations, shops, factories, shipyards, docks,
electric locomotives and other systems or processes utilizing
electrical power whether installed on land, underground, or on
board watercrafts;
n) Electric Supply Equipment refers to any equipment which
produces, modifies, regulates, or controls the supply of
electric power to include but not limited to generators,
transformers, voltage regulators, uninterruptible power supply
equipment, and the like;

o) Utilization Equipment refers to power-consuming

equipment as motors, heaters, furnaces, light sources and
other devices which use electric power for any productive
purposes;
p) Electric Power Plant refers to an industrial facility or
establishment for the production of electric power comprised
of a system of generators, ancillary and auxiliary equipment
and machines altogether interconnected, interdependent and
in combination with each other for generation, conversion or
modification of energy derived from steam, internal
combustion engines, pumping stations, compressed gas,
hydraulic, geothermal, nuclear, ocean thermal energy,
biomass, waste heat, wind, gas, water, solar heat, ocean
waves and tides, and other energy sources. An electric power
plant is also referred to as power station, generating station,
power plant, electric plant, powerhouse or generating plant;
q) Industrial Plant or Factory or Manufacturing Plant refers
to an industrial building, facility or establishment containing
production-processing equipment and machines where
discrete and continuous goods or products are manufactured
to include but not limited to mineral processing plants,
machine shops, shipyards, dry docks and other related
industries;

r) Industrial Complex refers to a cluster of several inter-

connected industrial plants or factories producing several
different goods or products under common ownership, control
or general management;
s) Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Plant refers to an
industrial plant engaged in designing, fabrication,
manufacturing and production of electrical products as
transformers, motors, generator, switchgears, switchboards,
control-gears, control panels, power panels, panel boards
other related engineered products;

t) Commercial Establishment refers to a an edifice or building

or structure that is used for business or commercial purposes
that includes office buildings, hotels, condominiums,
restaurants, resorts, entertainment centers, parking buildings,
warehouses, retail stores, department stores, specialty shops,
shopping malls, markets, supermarkets, theaters, stadiums,
convention centers, airports, seaports and the like;
u) Commercial Complex refers to a cluster of several inter-
related commercial establishments for business or commercial
use under common ownership or general management;

v) Institutional Buildings refer to school buildings, libraries,

hospitals, churches, religious buildings, museums, cultural
centers, government buildings and the like;
w) Capacity of Industrial Plant, Commercial Establishment,
Process Work or Project refers to the rated capacity in
Kilovolt-Amperes (kVA) or Megavolt-Amperes (MVA) of
electrical works or projects, or industrial or commercial
establishments for the purpose of this Act shall be the Total
Kilovolt-Ampere (kVA) or Total Megavolt-Ampere (MVA) rating
of all generators and transformers installed for use as electric
supply equipment in such works, projects or plants, or
establishments whether in operation or not, and without
regard to the connected loads requiring power from power
sources;
x) Capacity of Electric Power Plant refers to the aggregate or
total rated capacity in Kilovolt-Amperes (kVA) or Megavolt-
Amperes (MVA) of all generators within the plant to include
the capacities of transformer tie—ups with other power
sources that are owned, operated and controlled by the plant
which are installed whether in operation or not;

y) Power Grid or Grid refers to the interconnected network of

synchronized power plants or power providers through a maze
of transmission, sub-transmission, distribution systems,
manned or unmanned switching stations and substations
carrying power from near or distant sources to wholesale
demand load centers and is controlled and operated by one or
more system operation control centers;
z) Grid System Operation and Control refers to the round-the-
clock management, supervision, monitoring, data acquisition
and operational control over the processes of power grids,
substations, generator control stations and load dispatch
centers ensuring real time moment-to-moment power
balance, load flow transactions, load scheduling and
dispatching in facilitating inter-player transactions, while
maintaining the security and stability of the interconnected
systems therein;
aa) Distribution System Operation and Control refers to the
round-the-clock supervision, data acquisition, monitoring and
operational control over the distribution processes of a
distribution utility involving manned or unmanned substations
and load dispatch centers ensuring real time moment-to-
moment power balance, load flow transactions, load
scheduling and power delivery;
bb) Substation refers to a room, or a building, or an outdoor
structure containing a combination of power switches,
disconnects, circuit breakers, power transformers, power
rectifiers and inverters, voltage regulators, system protection
devices, power factor compensation equipment, short-circuit
current abatement equipment, switchgears, control gears,
metering equipment and other related equipment
interconnected with each other to alternating or direct
current power lines so arranged, schemed and functioning to
transform, modify, regulate and/or control the supply of
electric energy;
cc) System Nominal Voltage or Voltage is the highest effective
potential difference between any two conductors of the
circuit concerned expressed in volts. For the purpose of this
Act, "System Nominal Voltage" shall refer to the Philippine-
recognized standard voltage levels.

dd) kVA or MVA refers to the capacity of an electric plant or

ratings of supply equipment expressed in kilovolt-amperes or
megavolt-amperes. kVA or MVA is also referred to as the
connected load of industrial plants, commercial edifices and
other establishments expressed in kilovolt-amperes or
megavolt-amperes;
ee) kW or MW refers to the capacity of an electric plant or
ratings of supply equipment expressed in kilowatts or mega
watts. kW or NIW is also referred to as the connected load of
industrial plants, commercial edifices, institutional buildings,
watercrafts and other establishments expressed in kilowatts or
megawatts;
ff) Watercraft refers to any waterborne which is designed and
built to have an electric propulsion, electric generating plant
and a distribution system;

gg) Electric Locomotive refers to the power plant and

distribution system mounted on wheels as used in rail
transportation industry and industrial locomotive operation;

hh) Unsafe Installation refers to all new and existing

installations which are in violation or non-compliant with the
provisions of the latest edition of the Philippine Electrical
Code and other Philippine recognized International Standards;
ii) Unsafe Design refers to all new and existing plans and
designs which are in violation or non-compliant with the
provisions of the latest edition of the Philippine Electrical
Code and other Philippine recognized International Standards;
jj) Philippine Electrical Code - As recognized by this Act, the
Philippine Electrical Code sets forth the minimum
requirements and standards that constitute the framework as
legal criteria of safe electrical design, trustworthy installations
and the appropriate equipment installed within industrial and
commercial establishments, public and private buildings,
including mobile homes and recreational vehicles, floating
buildings, watercrafts, locomotives and other structures aimed
at safeguarding persons and buildings and their contents from
the hazards arising from the use of electricity for light, heat,
power, and for other purposes;
kk) Electrical Plans refers to the documents illustrating the
interpretation of the electrical system as designed, through a
structure of symbols, drawings and diagrams that gives a clear
description of sizes, ratings, configurations and other relevant
identification to every part and components of the system
according to the norms set forth by the Philippine Electrical
Code and other Philippine-recognized Standards in a form of
hard prints used for reference in construction, operation and
maintenance; Electrical plans duly signed, stamped or sealed,
as instruments of service, are the intellectual properties and
documents of the author who is the Electrical Design
Engineer-of-Record with the Office of the Building Official,
whether the purpose for which they are made is executed or
not.
Il) As-built Plans or As-built Drawings refers to a revised set
or sets of plans or drawings that are documented during or
upon completion of a project or a particular job. As final set
of documents, they reflect all the changes that had been
made to the original construction drawings including notes,
modifications, and any other information in the specifications
and working drawings during the construction process, and
where the exact dimensions, geometry, and location of all
elements of the works completed are shown as of the specific
date of the update;
mm) Office of the Building Official (OBO) refers to the office
forming part of the local government unit (LGU) but under the
administrative control of the appropriate government agency
whose primarily role is to oversee the full implementation of
the National Building Code and its Revised Implementing Rules
and Regulations, to include various Referral Codes and all
other relevant laws;
nn) Certified Electrical System Inspector refers to a Registered. Master
Electrician, or Registered Electrical Engineer or a Professional Electrical
Engineer authorized to practice in this Act, who is officially employed by
a Local Government Unit or under Service-Contract such as: city,
municipality, province or of any government office in-charge of the
enforcement of laws, ordinances or regulations on public safety relating
to the construction, approval of electrical permits for buildings or for any
other purposes who is trained, qualified and certified to conduct
inspection, checking, assessment, identify fire hazards arising from the
installations and physical review over the electrical system or process as
it proceeds under different stages of construction, to make sure that the
materials, methods, workmanships and implementation are in
compliance with approved plans and designs and to make sure that the
Philippine Electrical Code requirements and other Philippine-recognized
International Standards are complied with;
oo) Certified Electrical Plans Examiner refers to a Registered Electrical
Engineer or a Professional Electrical Engineer authorized to practice in
this Act, officially employed by a Local Government Unit or under
Service-Contract such as: city, municipality, province or of any
government in-charge of the enforcement of laws, ordinances or
regulations on public safety relating to the construction, approval of
electrical permits for buildings or for any other purposes; and who is
trained, qualified and certified to assess and corroborate electrical
plans, verify calculations, violations to standards, identify alteration
needs, organize comments lists for plans and specifications identified
as potential safety failures; processes and recommends approval of
electrical permits, and to make sure that the Philippine Electrical Code
and other related standards whether local, national or other
Philippine-recognized International Standards are complied with;
pp) Distribution Utility or DU refers to an electric cooperative, or
a private corporation, or government-owned utility or a local
government that has a franchise to operate an electric distribution
system;

qq) Electric Cooperative or EC refers to a cooperative or

corporation authorized to provide electric services pursuant to
Presidential Decree No. 269;

rr) Electrical Firm refers to a partnership or corporation composed

of authorized Electrical Engineering Practitioners duly registered
with proper government agencies with business permits as
professional services providers and who are authorized to
collectively render electrical engineering services;
SS) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) refers to a
sustaining and progressive Professional Regulation
Commission (PRC) driven learning program or process that
maintains, enhances, or increases the knowledge and
continuing ability of electrical engineers;
Article II
BOARD OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
SEC. 4. Composition of the Board. — The Board of Electrical
Engineering, herein after referred to as the Board, shall be
created as a collegial body under the general supervision and
administrative control of the Professional Regulations
Commission (PRC). The Board shall be composed of a
chairperson and two (2) members to be appointed by the
President of the Philippines from among the recommends of
the Commissioner of the PRC, hereinafter referred to as the
Commissioner. The recommends of the PRC shall be chosen
from the nominees of the integrated and accredited
association of electrical engineers.
SEC. 5. Powers and Duties of the Board — The Board shall
exercise executive, administrative, quasi-legislative, or quasi-
judicial powers in carrying out the provisions of this Act. It
shall be vested with the following specific powers, functions,
duties and responsibilities:

a) Supervise and regulate the practice of electrical

engineering in the Philippines;

b) Determine and evaluate the qualifications of the

applicants for registration with or without licensure
examinations and for special permits;
c) Prepare the examination questions in accordance with the
Scope of Examinations under this Act; prescribe the syllabi of
the subjects and their relative weights for the licensure
examinations; formulate or adopt test questions and deposit
them in a test question bank; draw the test questions at
random through process of computerization; conduct the
examination; correct and rate the examination papers
manually or through process of computerization; and submit
the examination results to the Professional Regulations
Commission (PRC) within the period provided for by the rules
of the Commission;
d) Prescribe, amend or revise the requirements for
professional electrical engineers and subjects in the licensure
examination for registered electrical engineers, registered
master electricians and their relative weights, subject to the
approval of the PRC;

e) Register successful applicants for professional electrical

engineers and applicants who have passed the licensure
examinations for registered electrical engineers or registered
master electricians and issue the corresponding certificates of
registration and professional licenses;
f) Issue special permits to individual foreign electrical
engineers for specific projects and for a specific duration of
time;

g) Establish guidelines, qualification or examination

requirements, processes or procedures in collaboration and
consultation with the PRC accredited electrical professional
organization in the issuance of special certifications to
Electrical Plans Examiners, Electrical Systems Inspectors and
conferment to other fields of specialization as embodied in
this Act;
h) Look into the conditions affecting the practice of the
electrical engineering profession, adopt measures for the
enhancement of the profession and the maintenance of high
professional, technical, and ethical standards and conduct
ocular inspection of places where registrants practice their
profession, such as, but not limited to: electric plants,
substations, switching stations, industrial plants or factories,
commercial establishments, airports, seaports, institutional
buildings, watercrafts, electric locomotives, engineering
offices, Office of the Building Officials (OBO), repair shops,
electrical projects undergoing construction and similar places
to determine and enforce compliance with this Act. The Board
shall authorize the duly integrated and accredited electrical
engineering association to render assistance in this function;
i) Promulgate rules and regulations including a code of ethics,
administrative
policies, orders and issuances to carry out the provisions of this Act;

j) Investigate violations of the Act and the rules and regulations, code
of ethics, administrative policies, orders and issuances promulgated
by the Board. The rules on administrative investigation promulgated
by the PRC shall govern in such investigation

k)Issue subpoena, to secure the attendance of respondents or

witnesses or the production of documents at and relative to the
investigation conducted by the Board;
l) Delegate the investigation of the case to the chairperson, a
member of the Board or a PRC attorney. If the case concerns
strictly the practice of the profession, the investigation shall be
presided by the chairman or a member of the Board with the
assistance of a PRC attorney;

m) Render decision, order or resolution on preliminary

investigation or inquiry, on un docketed cases and on docketed
administrative cases against examinees or registrants which
shall become final unless appealed with the PRC within fifteen
(15) days from receipt of the copy thereof. The decision of the
PRC may be appealed to the Court of Appeals in accordance
with the procedure provided in the Rules of Court;
n) After due notice and hearing, cancel examination papers and bar any
examinee from future examination; refuse or defer his registration;
reprimand the registrant with stern warning; suspend him from the
practice of his profession; revoke his certificate of registration; delist his
name from the roll of professional electrical engineers, registered
electrical engineers and registered master electricians for continuous
non-payment of annual registration fees and non-compliance with the
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements; reinstate or
reenroll his name in the said roll, reissue or return his certificate of
registration. A decision of suspension, revocation of the certificate of
registration, or delisting from the roll by the Board as provided herein,
may be appealed initially to the PRC within fifteen (15) days from receipt
thereof. The decision of the PRC may be appealed to the Court of
Appeals in accordance with the procedure provided in the Rules of
Court;
o) Administer oaths in connection with the administration,
implementation, or enforcement of this Act;

p) Submit an annual report on the proceedings and

accomplishments duringthe year and on recommendations of
the Board to the PRC after the close of each fiscal year;

q) Prosecute or institute criminal action against any violator of

the Act or the rules and regulations of the Board;
r) Adopt an official seal;

s) Coordinate with the PRC and the Commission on Higher

Education (CHED) in prescribing, amending or revising the
courses;
t) Prescribe programs, guidelines and criteria on the Continuing
Professional Development program (CPD) for professional
electrical engineers, registered electrical engineers and
registered master electricians and renew their professional
licenses after compliance with the CPD requirement;

u) Perform such other functions and duties as may be necessary

to implement effectively this Act. The policies, resolutions, rules
and regulations, orders or decisions issued or promulgated by
the Board shall be subject to the review and approval by the
PRC; however, the Board's decisions, resolutions or orders which
are not interlocutory, rendered in an administrative case, shall
be subject to review only if on appeal.
SEC. 6. Qualifications of Board Members. - Each Board
member must, at the time of his appointment:

a) Be a natural-born Filipino citizen and a resident of the

Philippines for at least ten (10) consecutive years;

b) Be at least forty (40) years of age, of proven integrity

with high moral values in his personal as well as his
professional conduct;

c) Be a person with no final conviction by the court of an

offense involving moral turpitude;
d) Be a holder of the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from a university, school,
college, academy or institute duly constituted, recognized and
accredited by the Philippine government;

e) Be a professional electrical engineer for ten (10) years prior

to his appointment with a valid certificate of registration and a
valid PRC identification card;

f) Have practiced electrical engineering for a period of not less

than fifteen (15) years prior to his appointment, with a sworn
statement as such;
g) Not be an official nor a member of the faculty of, nor have a
pecuniary interest in, any university, college, school or
institution conferring a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering for at least three (3) years prior to his
appointment, and is not connected with a review center or
with any group or association where review classes or lectures
in preparation for the licensure examinations are offered or
conducted at the time of his appointment.
h) Have an expertise in any two (2) or more of the following
major electrical engineering fields as:

1) Operation and Maintenance of Power Plants

2) Operation and Maintenance of Utility Electrical Systems
3) Operation and Maintenance of Industrial Plants
4) Electrical Engineering Technical Services
5) Planning, Designing and Construction of Electrical Systems
6) Power Systems Consultancy Services
7) Teaching of Professional Electrical Engineering Subjects
i) Have a record of service with the accredited and recognized
electrical engineering association as an officer for a period of
at least five (5) years.
SEC. 7. Term of Office. — The members of the Board shall hold office for a
term of three (3) years from the date of appointment or until their successors
shall have been qualified and appointed. They may, however, be reappointed
for a second term and shall serve in the Board for a maximum of six (6) years.
Each member shall qualify by taking an oath of office before entering upon
the performance of his duties. The Board shall function as a collegial body of
three members at any given time. Any vacancies shall be filled immediately
from the pool of pre-qualified list of recommendees provided by the
Commissioner of the PRC: Provided, that vacancy for the Chairmanship of the
Board shall be filled in and appointed from among the most senior members
of the Board.-Provided, further, that vacancies in the Board shall be filled by
the President of the Philippines from the list of pre-qualified recommendees
selected by the Commissioner who were chosen from the list of nominees
submitted by the integrated and accredited association and shall serve for a
fresh three-year term of office.
SEC. 8. Removal of Board Members. — Any member of the
Board may be removed by the President of the Philippines,
upon the recommendation of the Commissioners en banc for
graft and corruption, neglect of duty, incompetence,
malpractice, commission or tolerance of irregularities in the
examinations, or for unprofessional, unethical, or
dishonorable conduct such as facilitating examinees to pass
the examinations by preparing, training, teaching related
board subjects through seminars or sessions among other
ignoble acts; after having been given the opportunity to
defend himself in a proper administrative investigation.
SEC. 9. Compensation of Chairman and the Board Members.
— The chairman and members of the Board shall receive a
monthly compensation as prescribed under existing laws:
Provided, That such compensation shall be increased or
modified pursuant to the General Appropriations Act of the
year: Provided, further, That they shall receive other benefits
that may be provided for by law.
SEC. 10. Executive Officer of the Board. — The Commissioner
shall be the executive officer of the Board and shall conduct
the examination given by the Board and shall designate any
subordinate officer of the PRC to act as secretary and
custodian of all records including all examination papers and
minutes of the deliberations of the Board.