Queensland Consolidated Regulations Queensland Consolidated Regulations(1) An electricity entity must, in accordance with recognised practice in the electricity industry--
(a) decide the route, termination point, number of phases, lengths, type and size of its service lines; and
(b) provide and install or arrange for the provision and installation of its service lines.
(2) The electricity entity must meet the cost of providing and installing a service line to a customer's premises.
(3) However, the maximum length of a service line required to be provided and installed within a customer's premises by an electricity entity at the electricity entity's cost is--
(a) 20m for an overhead service line; or
(b) 7m for an underground service line.
(4) Also, subsections (1)(b), (2) and (3) apply only to the provision and installation of 1 initial service line to a customer at particular premises, whether before or after the commencement of this section.
Example--
Subsection (1)(b) does not apply if a customer requires an additional service line, or the upgrading of the existing service line, at the customer's premises to operate 3-phase air conditioning equipment.
(5) For subsections (1) and (3), a service line must be measured from the customer's property alignment or, if the line does not cross the property alignment, the point of origin of the service line.