Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) A person in control of a workplace must ensure that a person working in, or undertaking maintenance at, the workplace is prevented from making inadvertent contact with a live, conductive part of an electrical installation.
(2) A person in control of a workplace must ensure that a person working in, or undertaking maintenance at, the workplace is prevented from going within an unsafe distance of overhead or underground electrical power lines or exposed cables.
(3) Subsection (1) and subsection (2) do not apply in relation to a person undertaking electrical work if the person is licensed under the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004 to undertake the work.
(4) Subsection (2) does not apply if—
(a) a written risk assessment is given to the electricity network operator; and
(b) the electricity network operator is satisfied—
(i) with the content of the risk assessment; and
(ii) that work to be done in accordance with the risk assessment will be safe.
(5) In this section:
"electricity distributor"—see the Utilities Act 2000 , dictionary.
"electricity network operator "means the person responsible for network operations for the relevant electricity distributor.
"relevant electricity distributor", in relation to electrical power lines or exposed cables, means the electricity distributor of whose network the power lines or cables are a part.
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