Victorian Numbered Acts

ENERGY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (BUSHFIRE MITIGATION AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2011 (NO. 59 OF 2011) - SECT 13

After section 43 of the Electricity Safety Act 1998 insert —

        " 43A     Safety of electrical installations—building work

    (1)     A person must not carry out building work at a premises which the person knows or should reasonably be expected to know will make—

        (a)     an electrical installation at the premises unsafe; or

        (b)     a building at the premises unsafe if that premises is supplied with electricity.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 40 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 200 penalty units.

    (2)     In this section—

"building work" has the same meaning as in the Building Act 1993 .".