Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

ELECTRICITY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 4 OF 1999) - REG 6

    After regulation 7A of the Principal Regulations the following regulations are inserted:

“7B.     Exemption from Australian Standard 3000

    For the purposes of paragraph 33A (2) (b) of the Act, paragraph 33 (1) (a) of the Act does not apply where the Chief Executive is satisfied that—

        (a)     the electrical wiring work—

              (i)     is commenced before the day on which a revised edition of Australian Standard 3000 is published and is completed after that day; or

              (ii)     is completed before the expiry of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which a revised edition of Australian Standard 3000 is published; and

        (b)     the electrical wiring work complies with Australian Standard 3000 as in effect before the publication of the revised edition.

“7C.     Exemption from sections 33A and 33B

“(1)     For the purposes of paragraph 33C (a) of the Act, prescribed electrical wiring work is electrical wiring work consisting of the installing of the wiring or a component of an electrical installation for a lift or escalator on the load side of a circuit breaker in the motor room for the lift or escalator.

“(2)     For the purposes of paragraph 33C (b) of the Act, prescribed circumstances are—

        (a)     where electrical wiring work has been carried out by the Company and consists of—

              (i)     the installation of a consumer's overhead line or an underground service cable, being a line or cable by which electricity is transmitted; or

              (ii)     the connection or reconnection to, or disconnection from, a main or other plant of the Company, of a main owned by a person other than the Company;

        (b)     where electrical wiring work is carried out by the Company on electrical service equipment that is owned or operated by the Company; or

        (c)     where electrical wiring work is carried out by the Company on—

              (i)     electrical generating equipment, an electrical transformer, a wire, cable or meter or electrical metering equipment; or

              (ii)     a fitting or support structure related to any equipment or item referred to in subparagraph (i);

        that is owned or operated by the Company.

“(3)     Subregulation (2) does not apply in relation to electrical wiring work unless—

        (a)     the work has, in the opinion of the Chief Executive, been completed in accordance with design and construction standards that have been lodged by the Company with the Chief Executive, being standards relating to the avoidance of injury to persons or damage to property; or

        (b)     where the work or any part of it has been carried out by a lineworker, the lineworker—

              (i)     has satisfactorily completed a training course leading to the qualification of accredited lineworker, being a course that—

    (A)     is an accredited course within the meaning of the Vocational Education and Training Act 1995 ; or

    (B)     was completed before the commencement of this regulation and is, in the view of the Company, substantially equivalent to a course referred to in sub-subparagraph (A); or

              (ii)     is the holder of a licence under the law of a State or another Territory entitling him or her to work as a lineworker.”.