South Australian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY (PRINCIPLES OF VEGETATION CLEARANCE) REGULATIONS 1996

under the Electricity Act 1996

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Short title
   3.      Interpretation
   3A.     Prescribed areas
   4.      Private powerlines
   5.      General principles governing clearance by electricity entity or council
   6.      Agreement between occupier and electricity entity
   7.      Vegetation clearance scheme outside prescribed areas agreed between council and electricity entity
   8.      Objections relating to vegetation clearance
   9.      Occupier's duty to clear vegetation
   10.     Planting and nurturing vegetation near powerlines
   11.     Exemptions from principles of vegetation clearance
   12.     Alternative vegetation clearance requirements
           SCHEDULE 1--Clearance and buffer zones around overhead powerlines
           SCHEDULE 2--Planting or nurturing vegetation near public powerlines
           SCHEDULE 2A--Maps showing prescribed areas
           SCHEDULE 3--Maps showing bushfire risk area
           SCHEDULE 4--Transitional provisions
           Legislative history