ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 45B Supply of certificate forms
ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 45B
Supply of certificate formsS. 45B(1) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(1) Energy Safe Victoria may sell certificate of electrical safety forms to registered electrical contractors and licensed electrical installation workers and prescribed persons.
S. 45B(2) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(2) Energy Safe Victoria may authorise a person to sell certificate of electrical safety forms to registered electrical contractors and licensed electrical installation workers and prescribed persons.
S. 45B(3) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(3) In authorising a person, Energy Safe Victoria may impose any conditions on its authorisation that it thinks appropriate and may change any such condition at any time.
S. 45B(4) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(4) A person authorised by Energy Safe Victoria to sell certificate of electrical safety forms—
(a) must not sell or give a certificate of electrical safety form to a person who is not a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or prescribed person; and
(b) must not sell a certificate of electrical safety form to a person who is a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person at a price greater than the authorised amount; and
S. 45B(4)(c) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(c) must comply with any condition imposed by Energy Safe Victoria in granting its authorisation.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
S. 45B(5) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(5) Energy Safe Victoria must not sell a certificate of electrical safety form to a person who is a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person at a price greater than the authorised amount.
(6) A registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person may authorise a person in writing to buy certificate of electrical safety forms on the contractor's or worker's or prescribed person's behalf.
(7) A registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person must ensure that only one person has such an authority at any one time.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
(8) A reference to a registered electrical contractor or licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person in subsection (1), (2), (4) or (5) includes a reference to any person duly authorised by the registered electrical contractor or licensed electrical installation worker or prescribed person under subsection (6).
S. 45B(9) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(9) If—
(a) the registration of an electrical contractor is suspended or cancelled or expires without renewal under this Act; or
(b) the licence of an electrical installation worker is suspended, cancelled or surrendered or expires without renewal under this Act—
the contractor or worker must return all unused certificate of electrical safety forms purchased under this section to Energy Safe Victoria within 14 days after that suspension, cancellation, surrender or expiry.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
S. 45B(10) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(10) Energy Safe Victoria must refund to an electrical contractor or electrical installation worker the amount paid under this section by the contractor or worker for any forms returned under subsection (9).
S. 45B(11) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(11) If, on the application of a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person, Energy Safe Victoria is satisfied that a certificate of electrical safety form supplied to the contractor, worker or person under this section is lost or damaged or destroyed, Energy Safe Victoria must provide the contractor, worker or person with a replacement form at no charge.
(12) In this section the authorised amount is—
(a) $20 (or any other amount specified by the regulations) for a certificate of electrical safety form relating to prescribed electrical installation work; or
(b) $500 (or any other amount specified by the regulations) for a periodic certificate of electrical safety form; or
(c) $5 (or any other amount specified by the regulations) for any other certificate of electrical safety form.
(13) In this section "prescribed person" means a person in a class of persons prescribed for the purposes of section 41A(b).
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