Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SAFETY (ELECTRIC LINE CLEARANCE) REGULATIONS 2005

S.R. No. 74/2005
Version as at 7 March 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page
   1.      Objectives
   2.      Authorising provisions
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Revocation
   5.      Definitions
   6.      Prescribed voltage
   7.      Prescribed Code of Practice
   8.      Prescribed penalty provisions
   9.      Management plans
   10.     Exemptions
   11.     Expiry
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           SCHEDULE-Code of Practice for Electric Line Clearance

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY
   INTERPRETATION
   1. Definitions

   PART 2-CLEARANCE SPACE REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL ELECTRIC LINES
   2. Clearance space for electric lines
   3. Notice requirements
   4. Consultation requirements
   URGENT PRUNING OR CLEARING
   5. Exemptions from notice and consultation requirements-urgent pruning or clearing
   6. Requirements for urgent pruning or clearing
           ADDITIONAL CONSULTATION BY SPECIFIC BODIES
           7. Additional duties of local councils, the Roads Corporation and others
           8. Management procedures to minimise danger

   PART 3-POWERLINE CLEARANCE
   9. Aerial bundled cables and insulated cables in all areas
   10. Powerlines other than aerial bundled cable or insulated cables
   in low bushfire risk areas

   11.     Powerlines other than aerial bundled cable or insulated cables
           in hazardous bushfire risk areas
   12.     Additional requirements for tree branches

   PART 4-TRANSMISSION LINE CLEARANCE

   13.     Clearance space for specified directions
           Schedule to Code of Practice
           Table 9.3-Minimum Clearance Spaces Surrounding a
           Powerline-All Areas
           Table 10.1-Minimum Clearance Spaces Surrounding a
           Powerline-Low Bushfire Risk Areas
           Table 10.2-Minimum Clearance Spaces Surrounding a
           Powerline-Low Bushfire Risk Area
           Table 10.3-Clearance Spaces Surrounding a 66 kV Powerline-
           Low Bushfire Risk Area
           Table 11.1-Minimum Clearance Spaces Surrounding a Powerline-Hazardous Bushfire Risk Areas
           Table 13.1-Minimum Clearance Spaces Surrounding a
           Transmission Line
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details