ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 83BA Submission of bushfire mitigation plans for acceptance

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 83BA

    (1)     A specified operator must, before 1 July in each year, prepare and submit to Energy Safe Victoria, for acceptance under Subdivision 3, a plan for the operator's proposals for the mitigation of bushfire in relation to the operator's at-risk electric lines.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 300 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 1500 penalty units.

    (2)     A bushfire mitigation plan under subsection (1)—

        (a)     must be in or to the effect of a form approved by Energy Safe Victoria; and

        (b)     must include the prescribed particulars.

    (3)     A specified operator must cause a copy of an accepted bushfire mitigation plan to be available for inspection—

        (a)     on the operator's Internet site; and

        (b)     at the operator's principal office in the State during ordinary business hours.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 10 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 50 penalty units.

S. 83BB inserted by No. 55/2010 s. 17.