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Electricity Safety Act 1998
43ASafety of electrical installations—building work
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43A Safety of electrical installations—building work
S. 43A(1) amended by No. 13/2025 s. 39.
(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.
building work has the same meaning as in the Building Act 1993.
S. 44 amended by No. 89/1998 s. 9(2) (ILA s. 39B(1)).