ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 89 Procedure for Code

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 89

S. 89(1) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch.  1 item 1).

    (1)     Energy Safe Victoria must, before the Governor in Council makes regulations prescribing the Code of Practice or amending or varying the Code—

        (a)     refer to the Committee all matters with respect to the contents of those regulations; and

        (b)     make a draft of those regulations available to the public for comment for a period of 90 days; and

S. 89(1)(c) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch.  1 item 2).

        (c)     consider any comments on the draft made to Energy Safe Victoria during that period.

    (2)     There shall at all times be in force regulations prescribing the Code but no such regulations shall continue in force for more than 5 years after the date of their coming into operation.

    (3)     The regulations must prescribe the provisions of the Code that are, for the purposes of section 90, penalty provisions.

    (4)     A regulation shall not be invalidated or affected by reason only of a failure to comply with subsection (1) with respect to that regulation.

S. 89(5) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch.  1 item 1).

    (5)     Energy Safe Victoria must cause the Code to be published in the Government Gazette.