ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 36 Electrical contractors not to employ certain persons

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 36

    (1)     A person ( the contractor ) must not employ a person ( the worker ) to carry out, in the course of a business carried on by the contractor, electrical installation work that, under the regulations, is a prescribed class of electrical installation work for the purposes of this Division, unless—

        (a)     the contractor is a registered electrical contractor under this Division; and

        (b)     the worker is a licensed electrical installation worker under this Part in respect of electrical installation work of that class.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 50 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 250 penalty units.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to the employment, in the regular course of a business carried on by a person, of a licensed electrical installation worker to carry out electrical installation work of a class in respect of which the worker is licensed only in premises owned or occupied by the employer.