Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1971

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   3.      Notes  
   3A.     Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--ELECTRICAL WIRING WORK

   4.      Connecting electrical installations to network—inspections  
   5.      Compliance with AS/NZS 3000  
   6.      Testing and reporting of electrical work  
   8.      Directions to rectify unsafe installations  

   PART 3--PRESCRIBED ARTICLES OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

           Division 3.1--Preliminary

   9.      Definitions for pt 3  
   10.     Declaration of corresponding law  

           Division 3.2--Regulation of dealings

   11.     Meaning of prescribed article of electrical equipment  
   11A.    Declaration of prescribed articles of electrical equipment  
   11B.    Declaration of articles not prescribed articles of electrical equipment  
   12.     Sale or installation of prescribed articles  
   13.     Sale or installation of noncomplying prescribed articles  
   14.     Registration as approved first seller  
   15.     Application for registration of declaration of compliance  
   16.     Registration of declaration of compliance  
   17.     Suspension or cancellation of registration of declaration of  
   18.     Transfer of registration of declaration of compliance  
   19.     Safety registration mark  
   20.     Approved testing laboratories  
   21.     Registers  
   22.     Examination and testing of articles  

           Division 3.3--Miscellaneous

   23.     False representation  
   24.     Evidence of registration of declaration of compliance  

   PART 4--NON-PRESCRIBED ARTICLES OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

   25.     Articles to which pt 4 applies  
   26.     Minimum safety standards  
   27.     Energy efficiency requirements  

   PART 5--DEFECTIVE ARTICLES OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

   28.     Prohibited articles  
   29.     Sale or installation of prohibited articles  
   30.     Directions about unsafe articles  
   31.     Publication of safety warnings  

   PART 6--SERIOUS ELECTRICAL ACCIDENTS

   32.     Definitions for pt 6  
   33.     Reporting by occupiers and electrical contractors  
   34.     Reporting by electricity distributor  
   35.     Interference with site of serious electrical accident  
   36.     Publication of report of serious electrical accident  

   PART 7--ENFORCEMENT

           Division 7.1--General

   37.     Definition of business premises  
   38.     Things connected with offences  
   39.     Planning and land authority may require information and documents  
   40.     Contravention of requirement by planning and land authority  
   41.     Appointment of inspectors  
   42.     Identity cards  

           Division 7.2--Inspectors' powers

   43.     General power to enter premises  
   44.     Production of identity card  
   45.     Consent to entry  
   46.     Warrants  
   47.     Warrants—application made other than in person  
   48.     Powers on entry to premises  
   49.     Powers in relation to serious electrical accidents  
   50.     Powers in relation to unsafe articles of electrical equipment  
   51.     Disconnecting etc dangerous electrical equipment and installations  
   52.     Power to require name and address  
   53.     Power to seize evidence  
   54.     Receipt for things seized  
   55.     Access to things seized  
   56.     Return of things seized  
   57.     Power to inspect electrical wiring work  

           Division 7.3--Miscellaneous

   58.     Selfincrimination etc  
   59.     Damage etc to be minimised  
   60.     Compensation  

   PART 8--APPEALS

   61.     Review of decisions  
   62.     Notifications of decisions  

   PART 9--MISCELLANEOUS

   63.     Evidence  
   64.     Determination of fees  
   65.     Approved forms  
   66.     Regulation-making power  
           DICTIONARY
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