Electricity Safety Act 1998
120GCompliance with electricity safety management scheme is a defence
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120G Compliance with electricity safety management scheme is a defence
It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence relating to a breach of a duty or obligation set out in section 75 or this Division if the person has complied with the accepted ESMS in relation to that duty or obligation.
Division 4—Other matters
S. 120GA inserted by No. 4/2020 s. 8.
120GA Accepted ESMS does not authorise certain electrical linework
A provision of an accepted ESMS that purports to authorise a person to carry out any class of electrical linework—
(b) that is a prescribed class of electrical work for the purposes of that Division—
does not have that effect.
S. 120H inserted by No. 61/2007 s. 7 (as amended by Nos 25/2008 s. 20(b), 57/2009 s. 16(12)).