New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SAFETY AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2008 - REG 8

8 Network operators may be required to lodge plan

(1) A network operator must, if notified in writing to do so by the Director-General, lodge a network management plan with the Director-General, within such period as may be specified in the notice.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) and 25 penalty units (in any other case).

(2) The network management plan is to consist of the following:

(a) chapter 1 dealing with network safety and reliability,

(b) chapter 2 dealing with customer installation safety,

(c) chapter 3 dealing with public electrical safety awareness,

(d) chapter 4 dealing with bush fire risk management.

(3) A network operator that is a distribution network service provider does not comply with a requirement under subclause (1) in respect of a network management plan unless the plan complies with any requirements imposed on the network operator by any relevant conditions of the network operator’s distribution network service provider’s licence.

(4) A network operator must implement the plan it lodges under this clause.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) and 25 penalty units (in any other case).

(5) The Director-General, when exercising functions under this clause, is to have regard to the following:

(a) the size, nature and complexity of the network operator’s transmission or distribution system,

(b) any inadequacy in the planning, design, construction, operation or maintenance of that system that has given rise to, or may give rise to, a failure to provide an adequate, reliable or safe supply of electricity of appropriate quality.