Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Safety Act 1998 - SECT 57

Prescribed electrical equipment

57. Prescribed electrical equipment



(1) Energy Safe Victoria, by notice published in the Government Gazette, may
declare that any class, description or type of electrical equipment is, from a
date specified in the notice, prescribed electrical equipment for the purposes
of this Act.

(2) A person must not supply or offer to supply electrical equipment
prescribed under subsection (1) unless the equipment-

   (a)  is approved by Energy Safe Victoria and is marked as prescribed; or



   (b)  is approved by a prescribed authority or, under the regulations, is
        deemed to be approved; or

   (c)  is certified in accordance with a prescribed method or prescribed
        process.

Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 40 penalty units; In the case of a
body corporate, 200 penalty units.

(3) If electrical equipment complies with the requirements of subsection
(2)(b) or (c), it is deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been approved
by Energy Safe Victoria and to be marked as prescribed.