Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Safety Act 1998 - SECT 45B

Supply of certificate forms

45B. Supply of certificate forms





(1) Energy Safe Victoria may sell certificate of electrical safety forms to
registered electrical contractors and licensed electrical installation workers
and prescribed persons.

(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.

(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.

(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

   (c)  must comply with any condition imposed by Energy Safe Victoria in
        granting its authorisation.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(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).

(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.

(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).

(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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