New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (CORROSION PROTECTION) REGULATION 2008 - REG 10

10 Examination and testing of corrosion protection systems

(1) The Director-General may cause an authorised officer to undertake or arrange for the undertaking of the examination or testing, or both, of a corrosion protection system.

(2) The examination or test may be carried out for the purpose of determining whether the corrosion protection system is operating in accordance with its approval and any conditions of its approval, whether the operation of the system is causing any unreasonable interference with any foreign structures and for any other purpose determined by the Director-General.

(3) An authorised officer may require the holder of an approval for a corrosion protection system to carry out an examination or test on the system for the purposes of this clause or assist in the carrying out of such an examination or test.

(4) An authorised officer may oversee the examination or testing of a corrosion protection system under this clause.

(5) It is a condition of an approval that the holder of the approval for a corrosion protection system:

(a) must provide access to the system and to any supporting equipment for the purposes of enabling the system to be examined or tested under this clause, and

(b) must comply with any requirement of an authorised officer under subclause (3) to carry out an examination or test under this clause or assist in the carrying out of such an examination or test, and

(c) must cause to be installed in the system equipment that would enable an interference test of that system to be conducted.

(6) In this clause, "authorised officer" means a member of staff of the Department appointed by the Director-General as an authorised officer for the purposes of this Regulation. An authorisation of such a person as an authorised officer may be given generally or subject to conditions and restrictions or only for limited purposes.