ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2000 - SECT 80 Unauthorised interference with critical electricity infrastructure plant or equipment or vehicles
ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2000 - SECT 80
Unauthorised interference with critical electricity infrastructure plant or equipment or vehicles(1) A person who—
(a) damages, interferes or tampers with, or attaches a thing to plant or equipment that forms part of critical electricity infrastructure or that is on land or premises on which, or in an enclosure in which, critical electricity infrastructure is situated (the prohibited act ); and
(b) knows that he or she does not have authority to do the prohibited act; and
(c) is reckless as to whether the prohibited act will result in a disruption to the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity—
is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years.
Examples
Examples of plant or equipment are: bucket dredgers, conveyer belts, boilers, pumps, cooling towers, pipelines, sprays, turbines, transformers, switching equipment, telemetry equipment and emergency services equipment.
(2) A person who—
(a) damages, interferes or tampers with, or attaches a thing to a relevant infrastructure vehicle that is on land or premises on which, or in an enclosure in which, critical electricity infrastructure is situated (the prohibited act ); and
(b) knows that he or she does not have authority to do the prohibited act; and
(c) is reckless as to whether the prohibited act will result in a disruption to the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity—
is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 2 years.
(3) In subsection (2), "relevant infrastructure
vehicle" means a vehicle used as part of the production process for the
generation of electricity or for the purpose of maintaining critical
electricity infrastructure.
Part 5—Powers of electricity corporations
S. 85 substituted by No. 9/2006 s. 157(1).