New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SAFETY AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2008 - REG 10

10 Chapter 2 of plan-customer installation safety

(1) The object of chapter 2 of a plan is to ensure the provision of safe electrical installations for connection to the transmission or distribution system to which they relate and the safe connection of such installations to that system.

(2) Chapter 2 of a plan must include (but is not limited to) the following:

(a) design, construction and maintenance standards required of customers for their electrical installations,

(b) testing, connection and notification criteria for contractors installing electrical installations,

(c) an inspection regime and procedures for directions to remedy faulty work and the disconnection of unsafe installations by the network operator,

(d) procedures for notifying the Director-General (within the meaning of the Fair Trading Act 1987 ) of defective installation work.

Note: The Fair Trading Act 1987 defines Director-General as the Commissioner for Fair Trading, Department of Commerce or if there is no such position in that Department, the Director-General of that Department.

(3) This clause does not apply to electrical installations that take a supply at or above 132,000 volts (nominal).