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ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 98 General duty of major electricity companies

ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 98

General duty of major electricity companies

A major electricity company must design, construct, operate, maintain and decommission its supply network to minimise as far as practicable—

        (a)     the hazards and risks to the safety of any person arising from the supply network; and

S. 98(b) amended by No. 55/2010 s. 24(1).

        (b)     the hazards and risks of damage to the property of any person arising from the supply network; and

S. 98(c) inserted by No. 55/2010 s. 24(2), substituted by No. 59/2011 s. 4.

        (c)     the bushfire danger arising from the supply network.

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

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

Division 2—Mandatory electricity safety management schemes (major electricity companies)

S. 99 substituted by No. 61/2007 s. 7.