ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 83B General duty of specified operators to minimise bushfire danger
ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 83B
General duty of specified operators to minimise bushfire danger(1) A specified operator must design, construct, operate, maintain and decommission an at-risk electric line to minimise as far as practicable the bushfire danger arising from that line.
Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 300 penalty units;
In the case of a body corporate, 1500 penalty units.
(2) It is a defence to a prosecution of a specified operator for an offence relating to a breach of a duty or obligation set out in subsection (1) if the operator has complied with the accepted bushfire mitigation plan in relation to that duty or obligation.
S. 83BA inserted by No. 55/2010 s. 17.