New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY (CONSUMER SAFETY) REGULATION 2006 - REG 8

8 Application for renewal of approval

(1) The Director-General may renew a model approval on application by the model approval holder on or after the expiry of the model approval, but only if the Director-General is satisfied that the design, material and construction of the current model is not significantly different from that of the model for which the approval was granted.

(2) An approval may:

(a) be renewed more than once, and

(b) extend to both the original approval and any modifications to the approval previously granted.

(3) The application must:

(a) be in the form approved by the Director-General, and

(b) be lodged with the Director-General no earlier than 2 months (but no later than 1 month) before the approval is due to expire, and

(c) be accompanied by the applicable fee for the application, and

(d) in the case of a model of electrical article that is a declared electrical article-be accompanied by evidence that electrical articles of that model comply with any class specification to the extent that the specification applies to those articles and with any model specification that applies to the articles, and

(e) in the case of a model of electrical article that is not a declared electrical article-be accompanied by evidence that electrical articles of that model comply with any specification or requirement prescribed by this Regulation for the purposes of section 16 (1) (c) (iii) or (iv) of the Act that is applicable to them, and

(f) be accompanied by a declaration as to whether the model has been modified since the model approval was given or previously renewed (as the case may be), and

(g) be accompanied by a sample article of the model, and

(h) be accompanied by such other documents and particulars (including, for example, the drawings and manufacturing specifications in accordance with which electrical articles of the model are, or are to be, constructed) as the Director-General may require.

(4) The Director-General may waive any of the requirements of subclause (3) (other than subclause (3) (f)) in respect of an application if the Director-General considers that the requirement is inappropriate to that application.