67BOffence—documentary evidence level 1 in-scope electrical equipment

67B Offence—documentary evidence level 1 in-scope electrical equipment

(1) Energy Safe Victoria may request a responsible supplier, who at any time during the relevant period has supplied or offered to supply level 1 in‑scope electrical equipment, to provide the relevant documentary evidence for the electrical equipment.

(2) The responsible supplier must, within 10 business days after a request under subsection (1), supply that relevant documentary evidence.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the relevant documentary evidence is—

(a) documentary evidence, in English, that the level 1 in-scope electrical equipment satisfied the relevant standard—

(i) in the case of a responsible supplier who is the manufacturer of the electrical equipment—that applied to the electrical equipment on its manufacture; or

(ii) in the case of a responsible supplier who is the person who imported the electrical equipment—that applied on the importation of the electrical equipment; or

(b) a certificate of suitability in respect of the level 1 in-scope electrical equipment.

(4) Subsection (2) does not apply if—

(a) the person who supplied the level 1 in‑scope electrical equipment to the responsible supplier is registered under a corresponding law of New Zealand; and

(b) the electrical equipment at the time of its importation was registered as being supplied by the person who supplied the electrical equipment to the responsible supplier under a corresponding law of New Zealand.

(5) Subsection (2) does not apply to a responsible supplier who supplied level 1 in‑scope electrical equipment imported from a body corporate outside of Australia if—

(6) In this section, relevant period in relation to level 1 in-scope electrical equipment means a period of 5 years from the date the electrical equipment is supplied by a responsible supplier.

S. 67C inserted by No. 43/2018 s. 10.