ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 84 Requirement to keep trees clear of electric lines—distribution companies
ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 84
Requirement to keep trees clear of electric lines—distribution companiesA distribution company is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of an electric line within its distribution area unless under this Subdivision another person is responsible for—
(a) the maintenance of the line; or
(b) the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the line.
Note
Section 3 defines maintenance in relation to an electric line or a private electric line as including the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the line.
S. 84A inserted by No. 2/2014 s. 7.