{"id":"BILL-QLD-3269","name":"Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025","slug":"electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025","collection":"bill","jurisdiction":"qld","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":"2025-01-01","administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":446094,"registerId":"BILL-QLD-3269:current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2025-01-01","status":"in_force","reasons":null,"registeredAt":"2026-05-06T12:45:14.803Z"},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"retrieval-0001","sectionType":"document_chunk","heading":"Document excerpt 1","content":"# Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\n\nQueensland\nElectrical Safety and Other\nLegislation Amendment Bill\n2025\n\nQueensland\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation\nAmendment Bill 2025\nContents\nPage\nPart 1 Preliminary\n1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety Act 2002\n2 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4\n3 Amendment of s 122B (Delegation by regulator) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4\n4 Insertion of new s 122D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4\n122D Unsafe equipment directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4\n5 Amendment, relocation and renumbering of s 206 (Electrical safety\nnotification) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7\n6 Amendment of s 210 (Regulation-making power) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7\n7 Insertion of new pt 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7\nPart 24 Validation and transitional provisions for Electrical\nSafety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025\n260 Definition for part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7\n261 Validation of notices given by electricity entities before\ncommencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8\n262 Continuation of particular prohibitions as unsafe equipment\ndirections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8\nPart 3 Amendment of Electrical Safety Regulation 2013\n8 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10\n9 Omission of s 192 (Regulator may prohibit the sale or use of electrical\nequipment on safety grounds) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10\nPart 4 Amendment of Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation\nAmendment Act 2024\n10 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11\n11 Omission of s 9 (Amendment of s 32 (The regulator)) . . . . . . . . 11\n12 Omission of s 52 (Insertion of new s 155A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11\n13 Amendment of s 64 (Amendment of s 271 (Confidentiality of information))\n\nContents\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPage 2\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11\nPart 5 Other amendments\n14 Legislation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12\nSchedule 1 Other amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13\nElectrical Safety Act 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13\nWork Health and Safety Act 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13\n\n2025\nA Bill\nfor\nAn Act to amend the Electrical Safety Act 2002, the Electrical\nSafety Regulation 2013, the Work Health and Safety and Other\nLegislation Amendment Act 2024 and the legislation mentioned\nin schedule 1 for particular purposes\n\nPage 4\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 1]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 1 Preliminary\nThe Parliament of Queensland enacts—\nPart 1 Preliminary\n1 Short title\nThis Act may be cited as the Electrical Safety and Other\nLegislation Amendment Act 2025.\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety\nAct 2002\n2 Act amended\nThis part amends the Electrical Safety Act 2002.\nNote—\nSee also the amendments in schedule 1.\n3 Amendment of s 122B (Delegation by regulator)\nSection 122B(2)—\nomit, insert—\n(2) However, the regulator can not delegate the\nregulator’s power under section 122D or 122E.\n4 Insertion of new s 122D\nAfter section 122C—\ninsert—\n122D Unsafe equipment directions\n(1) This section applies if the regulator is satisfied on\n1\n2\nClause 3\n4\n5\n6\n7\nClause 8\n9\n10\n11\nClause 12\n13\n14\n15\n16\nClause 17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n\nPage 5\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 4]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety Act 2002\nreasonable grounds that an item of electrical\nequipment, or a type of electrical equipment—\n(a) is or is likely to become unsafe in use; or\n(b) has inadequate information marked on, or\naccompanying, the equipment.\n(2) The regulator may, by gazette notice, give 1 or\nmore of the following directions (each an unsafe\nequipment direction)—\n(a) a direction prohibiting the sale of the item of\nelectrical equipment or the type of electrical\nequipment;\n(b) a direction prohibiting the installation of the\nitem of electrical equipment or the type of\nelectrical equipment;\n(c) a direction prohibiting the use of the item of\nelectrical equipment or the type of electrical\nequipment.\n(3) An unsafe equipment direction must also state—\n(a) the person, or class of persons, to whom the\ndirection applies; and\n(b) the period, of not more than 10 years, for\nwhich the direction applies; and\n(c) that a person to whom the direction applies\nmust comply with the direction unless the\nperson has a reasonable excuse.\n(4) Despite subsection (3)(b), the same unsafe\nequipment direction may be given more than once\nin relation to the same item of electrical\nequipment or type of electrical equipment.\n(5) A person to whom an unsafe equipment direction\napplies must comply with the direction unless the\nperson has a reasonable excuse.\nMaximum penalty—40 penalty units.\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n32\n33\n\nPage 6\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 4]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety Act 2002\n(6) Subsection (5) places an evidential burden on the\ndefendant to show a reasonable excuse.\n(7) In considering the matters mentioned in\nsubsection (1), the regulator may consider—\n(a) any relevant standard providing for safety\nrequirements about electrical equipment; or\n(b) any other relevant matter.\n(8) The regulator must publish on the department’s\nwebsite—\n(a) a copy of each unsafe equipment direction;\nand\n(b) a notice complying with the QCAT Act,\nsection 157(2) for the decision to give the\nunsafe equipment direction.\n(9) For an unsafe equipment direction given under\nsubsection (2)(a), the regulator must give a copy\nof the documents mentioned in subsection (8) to\neach person the regulator knows to be, or is likely\nto be, a seller of the item or type of electrical\nequipment to which the direction applies.\nNote—\nFor an unsafe equipment direction given under\nsubsection (2)(b) or (c), see the QCAT Act, s 157(1) for\nthe requirement to give notice of the decision to give the\ndirection.\n(10) It is not a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to\ncomply with an unsafe equipment direction on the\nbasis that the person did not receive a document\nunder—\n(a) for a direction given under subsection\n(2)(a)—subsection (9); or\n(b) for another direction—the QCAT Act,\nsection 157(1).\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n32\n33\n\nPage 7\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 5]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety Act 2002\n5 Amendment, relocation and renumbering of s 206\n(Electrical safety notification)\n(1) Section 206(3)(b)—\nomit.\n(2) Section 206(3)(c)—\nrenumber as section 206(3)(b).\n(3) Section 206—\nrelocate to part 10, division 1 and renumber as section 122E.\n6 Amendment of s 210 (Regulation-making power)\nSection 210—\ninsert—\n(6) A regulation may provide for an electricity entity,\nor a class of electricity entities, to give notices\nrequiring action to be taken in relation to\ndefective electrical equipment.\n7 Insertion of new pt 24\nAfter part 23—\ninsert—\nPart 24 Validation and\ntransitional provisions\nfor Electrical Safety\nand Other Legislation\nAmendment Act 2025\n260 Definition for part\nIn this part—\nnew, in relation to a provision of this Act, means\nthe provision as in force from the commencement.\nClause 1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\nClause 9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\nClause 16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n\nPage 8\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 7]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety Act 2002\n261 Validation of notices given by electricity\nentities before commencement\n(1) This section applies if, before the\ncommencement, an electricity entity gave a notice\nto a person in control of electrical equipment\nabout a defect affecting the electrical safety of the\nelectrical equipment.\n(2) The giving of the notice to the person in control of\nthe electrical equipment is taken to be, and to have\nalways been, as valid as it would have been if new\nsection 210 had been in force at the time the notice\nwas given.\n(3) Anything done as a result of the giving of the\nnotice to the person in control of the electrical\nequipment is taken to be, and to have always been,\nas valid as it would have been if new section 210\nhad been in force at the time the notice was given.\n(4) In this section—\ngiven includes purported to be given.\n262 Continuation of particular prohibitions as\nunsafe equipment directions\n(1) This section applies to a prohibition under former\nsection 192 of the regulation that was in effect\nimmediately before the commencement.\n(2) If the prohibition was a continuing installing\nprohibition, the prohibition continues in effect\nfrom the commencement as if it were an unsafe\nequipment direction under new section\n122D(2)(a) and (b).\n(3) If the prohibition was a continuing use\nprohibition, the prohibition continues in effect\nfrom the commencement as if it were an unsafe\nequipment direction under new section\n122D(2)(a) and (c).\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n32\n33\n34\n\nPage 9\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 7]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 2 Amendment of Electrical Safety Act 2002\n(4) However, new section 122D(8) and (9) does not\napply to an unsafe equipment direction mentioned\nin subsection (2) or (3).\n(5) For subsection (2) and (3), the unsafe equipment\ndirection is taken to have—\n(a) been given by the regulator personally; and\n(b) been given by a gazette notice published on\nthe commencement; and\n(c) stated all persons as the persons to whom\nthe direction applies; and\n(d) stated a period of 10 years for which the\ndirection applies; and\n(e) stated the matter mentioned in new section\n122D(3)(c).\n(6) For subsection (2), to remove any doubt, it is\ndeclared that a reference in a prohibition\nprovision to prohibiting the use of an item of\nelectrical equipment, or a type of electrical\nequipment, is taken to have always included a\nreference to prohibiting the installation of the item\nof electrical equipment or type of electrical\nequipment.\n(7) A prohibition other than a continuing installing\nprohibition or continuing use prohibition ceases\nto have effect on the commencement.\n(8) In this section—\ncontinuing installing prohibition means a\nprohibition under former section 192 of the\nregulation published in the gazette on the\nfollowing dates—\n(a) 11 October 2013, at page 207;\n(b) 23 December 2014, at page 563;\n(c) 9 October 2015, at page 175.\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n32\n33\n\nPage 10\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 8]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 3 Amendment of Electrical Safety Regulation 2013\ncontinuing use prohibition means a prohibition\nunder former section 192 of the regulation\npublished in the gazette on the following dates—\n(a) 10 May 2017, at page 29;\n(b) 9 June 2020, at page 331;\n(c) 6 July 2022, at page 345;\n(d) 6 March 2024, at page 337.\nformer section 192 of the regulation means the\nElectrical Safety Regulation 2013, section 192 as\nin force immediately before the commencement.\nprohibition provision means—\n(a) former section 192 of the regulation; or\n(b) the repealed Electrical Safety Regulation\n2002, section 126D as it was in force from\ntime to time before its repeal by the\nElectrical Safety Regulation 2013.\nPart 3 Amendment of Electrical Safety\nRegulation 2013\n8 Regulation amended\nThis part amends the Electrical Safety Regulation 2013.\n9 Omission of s 192 (Regulator may prohibit the sale or use\nof electrical equipment on safety grounds)\nSection 192—\nomit.\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\nClause 19\n20\nClause 21\n22\n23\n24\n\nPage 11\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 10]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 4 Amendment of Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024\nPart 4 Amendment of Work Health and\nSafety and Other Legislation\nAmendment Act 2024\n10 Act amended\nThis part amends the Work Health and Safety and Other\nLegislation Amendment Act 2024.\n11 Omission of s 9 (Amendment of s 32 (The regulator))\nSection 9—\nomit.\nEditor’s note—\nLegislation ultimately amended—\n• Safety in Recreational Water Activities Act 2011\n12 Omission of s 52 (Insertion of new s 155A)\nSection 52—\nomit.\nEditor’s note—\nLegislation ultimately amended—\n• Work Health and Safety Act 2011\n13 Amendment of s 64 (Amendment of s 271 (Confidentiality\nof information))\nSection 64(1)—\nomit.\nEditor’s note—\nLegislation ultimately amended—\n• Work Health and Safety Act 2011\n1\n2\n3\nClause 4\n5\n6\nClause 7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\nClause 13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\nClause 19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n\nPage 12\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\n[s 14]\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPart 5 Other amendments\nPart 5 Other amendments\n14 Legislation amended\nSchedule 1 amends the legislation it mentions.\n1\nClause 2\n3\n\nSchedule 1\nElectrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025\nPage 13\nAuthorised by the Parliamentary Counsel\nSchedule 1 Other amendments\nsection 14\nElectrical Safety Act 2002\n1 Section 35(1), note, ‘section 206’—\nomit, insert—\nsection 122E\n2 Schedule 2, definition electrical safety notification,\n‘section 206’—\nomit, insert—\nsection 122E\nWork Health and Safety Act 2011\n1 Section 271A(1), ‘or (1A)’—\nomit.\n© State of Queensland 2025\n1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\n13","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":5,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Yes. The Bill meaningfully changes scope compared with the prior arrangement by moving the regulator's equipment‑prohibition powers from subordinate regulation into the primary Electrical Safety Act (new s 122D) and by explicitly adding a prohibition on installation as well as sale and use (s 122D(2)). It makes those powers non‑delegable (amended s 122B(2)), attaches a penalty and an evidential burden for defendants (s 122D(5)–(6)), and requires publication and QCAT‑style notices (s 122D(8)–(9)). The Bill also creates a new regulation‑making head of power (s 210(6)) to allow electricity entities to give defect‑action notices and validates past notices and certain gazetted prohibitions as if they were issued under the new Act (Part 24, ss 261–262). Taken together, these changes shift the legal locus of prohibition powers, broaden the types of prohibitions expressly available (installation), formalise publication and penalty arrangements, and create a route for electricity entities to play a statutory role — all of which expand and reallocate enforcement authority compared with the prior, regulation‑centred model."},"complexity_factors":["Insertion of a new operative power in the primary Act (new s 122D) with multiple components (prohibit sale, installation, use; publication; penalty; evidential burden).","Non‑delegation rule added to s 122B(2) (concentrates decision‑making and affects administrative arrangements).","Relocation and renumbering of an existing provision (s 206 → s 122E), requiring cross‑reference updates (Schedule 1 updates).","New regulation‑making head of power (s 210(6)) that delegates future scope to subordinate instruments (dependence on later regulations increases implementation complexity).","Transitional/validation Part 24 with specific lists of previous gazette dates and special‑case handling (ss 261–262) creating conditional continuity, exceptions and retroactive validation.","Omission of a regulation provision (reg s 192) meaning existing regulatory architecture is changed—requires checking subordinate legislation for consistency.","Cross‑statute changes (removal of certain amendments to the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024), increasing the number of instruments to check for interaction.","References to external review procedure (QCAT Act s 157(1)–(2)) creating procedural cross‑links with another statute.","Evidential burden on defendants (new s 122D(6)) — a legal‑standard nuance that affects enforcement and defence strategy."],"plain_english_summary":"**What this Bill does (mechanically)\n\n- Creates a new, non-delegable power for the electrical regulator to issue \"unsafe equipment directions\" in the main Electrical Safety Act. Those directions may prohibit the sale, installation or use of a particular item or type of electrical equipment if the regulator is satisfied there are reasonable grounds that the equipment is or is likely to become unsafe, or lacks adequate marking or information (new s 122D). The regulator must publish the direction and a QCAT-style notice on the department website and may, for sale-prohibitions, give copies to sellers the regulator knows or suspects (s 122D(2), (8)–(9)).\n\n- Sets process and limits for those directions: they must identify the persons (or class of persons) to whom they apply, state a period of up to 10 years (directions can be reissued), and carry a maximum criminal penalty of 40 penalty units for non‑compliance. The person who defends non‑compliance bears an evidential burden to show a reasonable excuse (s 122D(3)–(6)).\n\n- Moves an existing \"electrical safety notification\" provision from s 206 to a new s 122E (relocation/renumbering) and removes the regulator's ability to delegate the new s 122D/122E powers (amendment to s 122B(2)).\n\n- Adds an express regulation‑making head of power allowing a regulation to give electricity entities (or classes of them) the power to issue notices requiring action about defective electrical equipment (s 210(6)).\n\n- Validates and transitions prior regulatory prohibitions and notices: certain pre‑commencement gazetted prohibitions under the old regulation are converted into unsafe equipment directions as if gazetted by the regulator with a 10‑year period and stated to apply to all persons; notices previously given by electricity entities about defects are validated as if s 210(6) had been in force (Part 24, ss 261–262).\n\n- Removes the old regulator power in the Electrical Safety Regulation 2013 that allowed the regulator to prohibit sale/use (s 192) because that function is brought into the Act (Part 3, cl 9).\n\n- Omits several prior amendments in the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (removal of sections 9, 52 and part of 64) and updates internal cross‑references in schedule 1.\n\nWho this affects\n\n- Manufacturers, importers, sellers and distributors of electrical equipment: they may be subject to sale‑prohibition directions and will be placed on notice where the regulator knows they sell the relevant goods (s 122D(2), (9)).\n- Installers and service providers: the regulator can prohibit installation of particular equipment (s 122D(2)(b)).\n- Users and businesses that operate electrical equipment: the regulator can prohibit use and breaches attract a penalty (s 122D(2)(c), (5)).\n- Electricity entities (for example, distributors or network operators, depending on the regulation): they may be given statutory authority by regulation to issue notices requiring action in relation to defective equipment (s 210(6); validated retrospectively in s 261).\n- The regulator and QCAT: regulator decisions must be published and are subject to QCAT notification requirements referenced in the new provisions (s 122D(8)–(9)).\n\nWhy it matters (official purpose and then practical tests)\n\n- Official purpose: the Bill brings equipment‑prohibition powers from subordinate regulation into the primary Act and creates a clear statutory route to prohibit sale, installation or use of unsafe or inadequately labelled electrical equipment. It also provides a statutory basis (via regulation) for electricity entities to issue defect‑action notices and validates past notices and certain continuing prohibitions (see new s 122D, s 210(6), Part 24).\n\n- Practical effects and trade‑offs:\n  - Centralisation and legal permanence: moving the power into the Act (new s 122D) makes the prohibition power more prominent and harder to change than a regulation; it also removes delegation (s 122B(2)), so the regulator must personally exercise the power. That increases administrative control by the regulator but concentrates decision responsibility on the regulator (new s 122D(1) and amended s 122B(2)).\n  - Broader scope of prohibitions: the Act explicitly allows prohibitions on installation as well as sale and use (s 122D(2)(b)), which extends the regulator's reach beyond the former regulation‑based power that focused on sale/use (former reg s 192, now omitted). The transition clause also treats prior \"use\" prohibitions as including \"installation\" to remove doubt (s 262(6)).\n  - Compliance and enforcement burden on business: sellers, installers and users must monitor gazettes and the department website for directions and can be criminally penalised (maximum 40 penalty units) for non‑compliance; the defendant carries an evidential burden to show a reasonable excuse (s 122D(5)–(6)). This creates transaction costs (monitoring, product recall/withdrawal, contractual disruption) for private firms.\n  - Delegation and operational risk: because the regulator cannot delegate the new powers (s 122B(2) amendment), timely responses depend on the regulator's capacity. That centralisation can speed consistent decision‑making or create bottlenecks if resourcing is insufficient.\n  - Electricity entities’ role: the new regulation‑making head of power (s 210(6)) allows subordinate rules to give electricity entities powers to compel corrective action on defective equipment. That can shorten operational response times and shift enforcement costs onto private entities (who must issue/serve notices and monitor compliance). The Bill validates prior notices given by entities (s 261), limiting retrospective legal risk for those entities. However, how broadly this will be used depends on later regulations and their design.\n  - Transparency vs private cost: publication requirements (s 122D(8)–(9)) increase transparency for market participants and consumers but also make directions public reputational events for manufacturers and sellers.\n  - Administrative discretion and review: the Bill links directions to QCAT notice requirements (s 122D(8)–(9) and relocation of s 206 to s 122E), preserving a statutory review/notice architecture. The risk of inconsistent or overbroad directions is present to the extent the regulator's discretionary criteria are broad (new s 122D(1)–(7) allows consideration of standards or \"any other relevant matter\").\n\nConcrete incentives and who pays\n\n- Who pays: sellers, importers and installers bear most direct compliance and potential enforcement costs (product withdrawals, rework, monitoring gazettes). Electricity entities may bear administrative costs if regulations require them to serve notices or manage defect programs. Consumers may face indirect costs if products are removed from market and alternatives are more expensive.\n- Who decides: the electrical regulator decides to issue unsafe equipment directions and must personally exercise that power (amended s 122B(2), new s 122D). Regulations (if made under s 210(6)) will decide whether electricity entities can issue notices and in what form.\n\nImplementation and legal risk\n\n- The regulator must publish directions and associated QCAT notices (s 122D(8)), and some prior regulator powers in the regulation are converted into Act powers with transitional rules (Part 24). There is an implementation risk that drafting of subsequent regulations (under s 210(6)) or operational capacity of the regulator and electricity entities will determine whether the new framework works smoothly or creates uneven burdens.\n\nOther statutory housekeeping\n\n- The Bill omits the old s 192 of the Electrical Safety Regulation 2013 (which previously provided a regulator prohibition power) because that power is moved into the Act (cl 9). It updates cross‑references and removes some earlier amendments in the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (cl 11–13 and Schedule 1).\n\nSources in the Bill: new s 122D (unsafe equipment directions); amended s 122B(2) (non‑delegation); s 210(6) (regulation‑making power for electricity entities); Part 24 (ss 261–262) (validation/transition); omission of reg s 192 (Part 3, cl 9)."},"summary":{"status_summary":"The Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 received royal assent and is now an Act of the Queensland Parliament, though the official materials do not specify its commencement date.","complexity_score":5,"likely_questions":["Can a business appeal an unsafe equipment direction, and what is the review process?","What qualifies as a 'reasonable excuse' for failing to comply with an unsafe equipment direction?","Does the Act provide any compensation for businesses that lose stock or revenue due to a prohibition?","When exactly do the validation provisions take effect, and do they apply to all past notices?","Will the regulator publish a list of all current unsafe equipment directions, and how can affected parties access them?"],"complexity_factors":["Amends four separate pieces of legislation","Introduces a new regulator power with 10-year prohibition periods and renewal","Contains retrospective validation of pre-commencement notices","Transitions existing regulatory prohibitions into the new framework with deemed conditions","Removes uncommenced amendments from a previous Act","Includes relocation and renumbering of existing provisions and consequential amendments"],"plain_english_summary":"The Act gives the electrical safety regulator a new power to issue gazetted “unsafe equipment directions” that can ban the sale, installation or use of equipment for up to 10 years (renewable), with penalties and publication/notification duties. It transitions existing prohibitions into this framework, validates prior defect notices, abandons certain uncommenced WHS amendments, and chiefly affects sellers, installers, users and electricity entities by expanding regulator powers and reducing legal uncertainty."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025","history":"/api/acts/electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/electrical-safety-and-other-legislation-amendment-bill-2025/documents"}}