Electricity Safety Act 1998
45BSupply of certificate forms
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45B Supply of certificate forms
S. 45B(1) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(1) Energy Safe Victoria may sell certificate of electrical safety forms to registered electrical contractors and licensed electrical installation workers and prescribed persons.
S. 45B(2) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(2) Energy Safe Victoria may authorise a person to sell certificate of electrical safety forms to registered electrical contractors and licensed electrical installation workers and prescribed persons.
S. 45B(3) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(3) In authorising a person, Energy Safe Victoria may impose any conditions on its authorisation that it thinks appropriate and may change any such condition at any time.
S. 45B(4) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(4) A person authorised by Energy Safe Victoria to sell certificate of electrical safety forms—
(a) must not sell or give a certificate of electrical safety form to a person who is not a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or prescribed person; and
(b) must not sell a certificate of electrical safety form to a person who is a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person at a price greater than the authorised amount; and
S. 45B(4)(c) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 2).
(c) must comply with any condition imposed by Energy Safe Victoria in granting its authorisation.
- 20 penalty units.
S. 45B(5) amended by No. 39/2005 s. 48(Sch. 1 item 1).
(5) Energy Safe Victoria must not sell a certificate of electrical safety form to a person who is a registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person at a price greater than the authorised amount.
(6) A registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person may authorise a person in writing to buy certificate of electrical safety forms on the contractor's or worker's or prescribed person's behalf.
S. 45B(7) amended by No. 13/2025 s. 43.
(7) A registered electrical contractor, a licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person must ensure that only one person has such an authority at any one time.
(8) A reference to a registered electrical contractor or licensed electrical installation worker or a prescribed person in subsection (1), (2), (4) or (5) includes a reference to any person duly authorised by the registered electrical contractor or licensed electrical installation worker or prescribed person under subsection (6).