253Regulations

253 Regulations (1) The Administrator may make regulations under this Act. (2) A regulation may provide for the following: (a) ways of discharging a person's electrical safety duty; (b) ways of ensuring the electrical safety of individuals and property; (c) safety and technical requirements for electrical work; (d) safety and technical requirements for working in contact with, or near to, an exposed conductor or an exposed component of an item of electrical equipment; (e) safety, technical and certification requirements for electrical equipment, including for the sale, testing and use of electrical (f) safety and technical requirements for the electricity infrastructure and for electricity supply; (g) amendments, cancellations, suspensions and transfers of certificates and other authorities required under the regulation; (h) requirements for the labelling, marking, testing and disposal of electrical equipment; (i) requirements for signs or other advertising material for the sale of electrical equipment; (j) requirements for safety management and mitigation plans;

Electrical Safety Act 2022 136 (k) safety, technical and registration requirements for cathodic protection systems; (l) notification and reporting requirements for serious electrical events and dangerous electrical events; (m) matters about licences, including the following: (i) classes of licences; (ii) the periods for which particular licences are to be in force; (iii) financial and insurance requirements for the holders of licences; (iv) particular requirements applying to the making of applications for the issue or renewal of licences; (v) eligibility requirements for the issue or renewal of licences, including suitability for particular qualifications and successful completion of examinations or courses (vi) the keeping of a register for recording licence information; (vii) requirements for keeping licences and registers up to date, including for the provision of information for keeping licences and registers up to date; (viii) restrictions on advertising by the holders of licences; (n) matters relating to the registration of suppliers and consumer electrical equipment in the national register, including the renewal and cancellation of the registration; (o) matters relating to the classification, approval and sale of consumer electrical equipment, the keeping of evidence and certificates regarding standards; (p) matters relating to the declaration of a scheme as an external certification scheme under section 36 including the imposition of conditions on, and the cancellation of, the declaration; (q) discipline of the holders of licences; (r) reviews and appeals of matters under this Act; (s) fees payable under this Act and the recovery of costs incurred by the Electrical Safety Regulator or the Board under this Act;

Electrical Safety Act 2022 137 (t) the imposition of charges for the carrying out of activities of a distribution entity authorised under the Act; (u) matters of an administrative nature. (3) The regulations may: (a) provide that an offence against the regulations is an offence of strict or absolute liability; and (b) prescribe a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units for an offence against the regulations, other than an offence of strict liability or absolute liability; and (c) prescribe a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units for an offence against the regulations that is an offence of strict liability or absolute liability. (4) The regulations may apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without changes) the whole or part of an Australian Standard or Australian/New Zealand Standard, as in force or existing at a particular time or from time to time.