Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY ACT 1945 - SECT 33C

33C .         Power to Director to prohibit the sale etc. or use of unsafe or dangerous electrical apparatus etc.

        (1)         If in the opinion of the Director an electrical appliance is or is likely to become unsafe or dangerous in use, the Director notwithstanding the provisions of section 33B, may prohibit by notice the sale, hire or use of the electrical appliance of the description referred to in the notice.

        (2)         The notice shall —

            (a)         be in writing;

            (b)         contain a description of the prohibited electrical appliance; and

            (c)         contain a direction prohibiting the person to whom it is addressed from selling, hiring, exposing for sale or hire or advertising for sale or hire or, as the case may be, from using an electrical appliance of the description specified in the notice.

        (3)         A person to whom a notice is given who fails to comply with a direction contained in the notice is guilty of an offence.

        [Section 33C inserted by No. 72 of 1953 s. 4; amended by No. 89 of 1994 s. 80.]