New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1945 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"Cathodic protection system" means any appliances, wires, fittings or other apparatus designed, intended or used for the protection, by means of electrical currents, of metallic structures in contact with land, including water, from external corrosion and includes drainage bonds, boosted drainage bonds and cross bonds.
"Corporation" means the Energy Corporation of New South Wales constituted under the Energy and Utilities Administration Act 1987 .
"Director" means the Director of the Department of Energy.
"Distribution" of electricity includes supply and reticulation of electricity.
"Distribution district" of a distribution network service provider means its distribution district determined under this Act.
"Distribution network service provider" means a distribution network service provider within the meaning of the Electricity Supply Act 1995 .
"Electrical article" means any wire, cable, appliance, fitting, meter, insulator, apparatus or material intended, suggested or designed for use in, or for the purposes of, or for connection to, any electrical installation.
"Electrical installation" means any appliances, wires, fittings or other apparatus placed in, on, under or over any land or premises (including land or premises owned, occupied or leased by the Crown) and used for or for purposes incidental to the conveyance, control and use of electricity supplied or intended to be supplied by an electricity supply authority, but does not include:

(a) any electricity supply main or service line of an electricity supply authority,

(b) any appliances, wires, fittings or other apparatus connected to and extending or situated beyond any electrical outlet socket:

(i) which is installed for the purpose of connecting portable electrical appliances, fittings or other apparatus, and

(ii) at which fixed wiring terminates,

(c) any appliances, wires, fittings or other apparatus which are:

(i) placed in, on or over any land or premises owned or occupied by an electricity supply authority, and

(ii) used for the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity,

(d) any electrical installation in or about a mine within the meaning of the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1982 or within the meaning of the Mines Inspection Act 1901 , or

(e) any electrical installation operating at not more than 32 volts alternating current or 115 volts direct current.

"Electrical wiring work" and "work" mean the actual physical work of installing, repairing, altering, removing or adding to an electrical installation and the supervising of that work.
"Electricity Development Fund" means the fund established under section 15.
"Electricity supply authority" means a person or body engaged in the distribution of electricity to the public or in the generation of electricity for supply, directly or indirectly, to the public whether by statute, franchise agreement or otherwise and includes:

(a1) TransGrid (or any other energy transmission operator under the Energy Services Corporations Act 1995 ), or

(b) a distribution network service provider, or

(e) the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation.

"Power station" means any station for generating or which is designed or intended for generating electricity for supply directly or indirectly to the public.
"Prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or by the regulations.
"Regulations" means regulations made or deemed to be made under this Act.
"Reticulation" of electricity means the provision of all conductors and other infrastructure and metering equipment necessary to allow the delivery of electricity from the point of connection of a distribution network service provider’s assets to sources of electricity supply, to the point of connection of the provider’s assets to the assets of an electricity consumer or of an electricity supply authority.
"Stray current source" means any appliance, equipment, fitting or other apparatus:

(a) that operates on direct electrical current or is designed or used to generate or transmit direct electrical current, and

(b) that is attached, whether directly or indirectly, to a metallic structure in contact with land, including water.

"Supply" of electricity means the delivery and sale to the supplier’s customers of electricity generated or purchased by the supplier.
"Transmission line" means any cable or overhead line operating at a voltage in excess of twenty-two thousand five hundred volts which connects or transmits electricity between, or is designed or intended to connect or transmit electricity at a voltage in excess of twenty-two thousand five hundred volts between, two or more power stations, or which is operated for or in connection with the supply of electricity directly or indirectly to the public at a voltage in excess of twenty-two thousand five hundred volts, and all towers, poles and equipment and all step-up and step-down transformers and switch-gear necessary to or used for the control and operation of any such cable or overhead line.
"Unincorporated Area" means the aggregate of those parts of New South Wales that are not within a local government area.

(2) A reference (however made or expressed) in this Act to any works or property of a distribution network service provider includes a reference to any works or property of the Crown of which the service provider has the care, control or management.

(4) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.