Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SAFETY (INSTALLATIONS) REGULATIONS 1999

S.R. No. 49/1999
Version incorporating amendments as at 31 March 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Regulation Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   101.    Authorising provisions
   102.    Objectives
   103.    Commencement
   104.    Revocation
   105.    Definitions
   106.    Prescribed classes of electrical installation work
   107.    Prescribed classes of electrical contracting

   PART 2-REGISTRATION OF ELECTRICAL
   CONTRACTORS

   201.    Qualifications for registration
   202.    Prescribed insurance
   203.    Applications
   204.    Conditions of registration
   205.    Obligations of registered contractors
   206.    Cancellation of registration
   207.    The register
   208.    Registration cards

   PART 3-LICENSING OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS

           Division 1-Issue, renewal and cancellation of licences

   301.    Classes of electrical work
   302.    Electrician's licence
   303.    Supervised worker's licence
   304.    Occupier's licence
   305.    Disconnect/reconnect worker's licence
   306.    Electrical inspector's licence
   307.    Applications
   308.    Refusal of licence
   309.    Renewal of licences
   310.    Cancellation of licence

           Division 2-General

   311.    Apprentices
   312.    Change of name or address
   313.    Written licence
   314.    Licence to be produced on demand

   PART 4-ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION WORK

           Division 1-Safety standards for electrical installations

   401.    Wiring methods
   402.    Multiple occupancy buildings, subdivisions and easements
   403.    Private electric lines
   404.    Route of underground lines

           Division 2-Testing of electrical installation work

   405.    Testing

           Division 3-Inspection of electrical installation work

   406.    Prescribed electrical installation work
   407.    Inspection of prescribed electrical installation work
   408.    Notification of defects by inspectors
   409.    Notification of defects by Office
   410.    Certificates of compliance
   411.    Certificates of inspection
   412.    Notification of completion of certificate of compliance
   413.    Notification of completion of certificate of inspection

           Division 4-Reporting and records

   414.    Reporting of incidents
   415.    Records to be maintained

           Division 5-Exemptions

   416.    Exemptions

   PART 4A-WIRING AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

           Division 1-Duties of owners and operators of high voltage
           electrical installations and supply networks of small gauge
           railway or tramway systems

   417.    General requirements-high voltage electrical installations
   418.    General requirements-small gauge railway or tramway
           systems
   419.    Minimum distances between aerial lines and the ground or
           water
   420.    Aerial lines and the façade of buildings
   421.    Minimum distances between aerial lines and buildings or structures
   422.    Minimum distances between aerial lines and parts of small
           gauge railway systems
   423.    Minimum distances between aerial lines and parts of small
           gauge tramway systems
   424.    Minimum distances between aerial lines
   425.    Substations
   426.    Poles and towers
   427.    Marking of electric lines

           Division 2-Duties of the public

   428.    Application
   429.    Sporting activities
   430.    Aircraft, kites etc.
   431.    Entangled objects
   432.    Blasting and fires
   433.    Protection of underground electrical installations from
           damage
   434.    Excavating
   435.    Altering levels
   436.    Minimum distances between parts of buildings, structures, scaffolding and posts and aerial lines
   437.    Minimum distances between materials and certain aerial
           lines
   438.    Minimum distances between parts of vehicles, plant,
           machinery and aerial lines
   439.    Minimum distances between transported loads and aerial
           lines
   440.    Minimum distances between aerial lines
   441.    Minimum distances between persons and aerial lines
   442.    Tree clearing
   443.    Damage and interference
   444.    Placing of materials

           Division 3-Exclusions and exemptions

   445.    Exclusions
   446.    Exemptions

   PART 5-EXAMINATIONS BY OFFICE

   501.    Examinations for registration
   502.    Examinations for licensing

   PART 6-FEES

   601.    Fees

   PART 7-TRANSITIONALS AND SAVINGS

   701.    Qualifications for registration
   702.    Qualifications for electrician's licences
   703.    Revoked
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           SCHEDULE 1-Revoked Regulations
           SCHEDULE 2-Fees
           SCHEDULE 3-Classes of Work Function
           SCHEDULE 4.

   PART A-PRESCRIBED CLASSES OF ELECTRICAL INSPECTION WORK

   PART B-REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, PROFICIENCY
   AND EXPERIENCE IN ELECTRICAL
   INSPECTION WORK
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           ENDNOTES

   1.      General Information
   2.      Table of Amendments
   3.      Explanatory Details