Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace commits an offence if the person does not 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.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(2) A person in control of premises commits an offence if the person does not ensure that a person working in, or undertaking maintenance at, the premises is prevented from making inadvertent contact with a live, conductive part of an electrical installation.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(3) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace commits an offence if the person does not 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.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(4) A person in control of premises commits an offence if the person does not ensure that a person working in, or undertaking maintenance at, the premises is prevented from going within an unsafe distance of overhead or underground electrical power lines or exposed cables.
Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.
(5) Subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) 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.
(6) Subsections (3) and (4) do 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.
(7) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.
(8) 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.