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Electricity Safety Act 1998
84ARequirement to maintain line—occupiers of land with private or low voltage electric lines
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84A Requirement to maintain line—occupiers of land with private or low voltage electric lines
(1) An occupier of land above or below the surface of which there is a private electric line is responsible for the maintenance of that line.
Section 3 defines maintenance in relation to a private electric line as including the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the line.
(2) An occupier of land on which there is a low voltage electric line which solely services that land is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree situated on the land clear of that line.
S. 84B inserted by No. 2/2014 s. 7.