ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 45A Certificates of electrical safety

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 45A

    (1)     The person who is responsible for the carrying out of electrical installation work must in accordance with this section—

        (a)     ensure that a certificate of electrical safety is completed in respect of that work; and

        (b)     within the required time—

              (i)     give the completed certificate of electrical safety in respect of that work to the person for whom the work was carried out; and

S. 45A(1)(b)(ii) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch.  1 item 2).

              (ii)     give a copy of that certificate to Energy Safe Victoria.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (2)     A certificate of electrical safety must contain—

        (a)     a certificate of compliance completed under section 44 for the installation work by the licensed electrical installation worker who carried out the work; and

        (b)     in the case of prescribed electrical installation work, a certificate of inspection of the installation work completed under section 45 by a licensed electrical inspector.

    (3)     The person who is responsible for the carrying out of electrical installation work must not give a certificate of electrical safety under subsection (1) unless the certificate form used is a certificate form supplied to that person under section 45B.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

S. 45A(4) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch.  1 item 2).

    (4)     A document is not a certificate of electrical safety unless the certificate form used is a form that has been supplied by Energy Safe Victoria or a person authorised by Energy Safe Victoria.

    (5)     A certificate of electrical safety may be a periodic certificate covering all electrical installation work (other than prescribed electrical installation work) for which a person is responsible that is carried out within a period of 3 months.

    (6)     In this section the required time—

        (a)     in the case of prescribed electrical installation work, is 4 business days after the certificate of inspection of that work is given under section 45(3) ; and

        (b)     in the case of electrical installation work under a periodic certificate of electrical safety, is 4 business days after the end of the period of 3 months to which the certificate relates; and

        (c)     in the case of any other electrical installation work is one month after the certificate of compliance for that work is completed under section 44(2).

S. 45AB inserted by No. 61/2007 s. 14.