Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Safety Act 1998 - SECT 45A

Certificates of electrical safety

45A. Certificates of electrical safety



(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

   (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.

(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).