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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 companies

A 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.