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ELECTRICITY ACT 1994 - SECT 13

13 Meaning of electrical equipment

(1) Electrical equipment is any apparatus, appliance, cable, conductor, fitting, insulator, material, meter or wire--

(a) used for controlling, generating, supplying, transforming or transmitting electricity at a voltage greater than extra low voltage; or
(b) operated by electricity at a voltage greater than extra low voltage; or
(c) that is, or that forms part of, a cathodic protection system.

(2) However, electrical equipment does not include any apparatus, appliance, cable, conductor, fitting, insulator, material, meter or wire forming part of a vehicle if--

(a) it forms part of a unit of the vehicle that provides propulsion for the vehicle; or
(b) its source of electricity is a unit of the vehicle that provides propulsion for the vehicle.
Examples of things that, under subsection (2), are not electrical equipment--
the headlights of a vehicle
ignition spark plugs of a motor vehicle
the interior lighting system of a vehicle, if powered from a battery charged by the engine that drives the vehicle or by the vehicle's movement
Examples of things that are not prevented by subsection (2) from being electrical equipment--
interior lighting or a socket outlet in a caravan, if the lighting or outlet is operated by a low voltage generating set or connected to low voltage supply
a refrigeration unit in a food delivery vehicle operating at low voltage from a source separate from the propulsion unit for the vehicle


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