Gate motor\lights\Electric fence compliance

[Dave A]

I the garage there was another small DB board with a couple of breakers. These are for the electric fence, gate motor and some lights which are on day\night sensors. I also realized that this smaller board is fed from a plug point in the garage and not from the house main DB board. Is this legal?

A socket-outlet shall supply only one fixed appliance. (6.16.1.5 of SANS 10142-1).

One has to be mindful that a fixed appliance may be a made up of a collection of individual electrical items. The classic example is a pool control panel that only supplies the pool's pump and the pool light. In this situation this can be considered a control panel for a single fixed appliance. Add circuits for the lights and a socket outlet in the poolside gazebo, and the "control panel" is now a distribution board supplying multiple fixed appliances and may not be supplied by a socket outlet.