Dictionary

(see reg 3)

"aerial cable" means any insulated or covered conductor or assembly of cores (with or without protective covering) that is above ground or water, suspended in the open air between 2 or more supports and forms part of an electricity network.

"aerial conductor" means any bare conductor that is above ground or water, suspended in the open air between 2 or more supports and forms part of an electricity network.

"aerial line" means an aerial cable, aerial conductor or aerial service line.

"aerial service line" means the final span or section of a low voltage aerial conductor of an upstream network that is connected to a point of supply.

"conductor" means a finished circular stranded assembly consisting of 3 or more metallic wires laid up together that has the specific function of carrying electrical current.

"covered conductor" means a conductor around which is applied a specified thickness of insulating material.

"electricity network facility" means any part of the infrastructure of an electricity network.

"gas network facility" means any part of the infrastructure of a gas network.

"insulated", for a thing, means the thing is surrounded by a nonconducting substance that provides resistance to—

        (a)     the passage of current; or

        (b)     disruptive discharges through or over the surface of the thing at the operating voltage; or

        (c)     the injurious leakage of current.

"sewerage network facility "means any part of the infrastructure of a sewerage network.

"structure" means a thing constructed by people and attached to land, or buried within land.

"U", for an aerial line, means its nominal voltage.

"switchgear" means the equipment for controlling the distribution of electrical energy or for controlling or protecting circuits, machines, transformers or other equipment.

"water network facility "means any part of the infrastructure of a water network.

"< "means less than.

≤ means less than or equal to.

Endnotes

Notification

1     Notified in Gazette 2001 No 34 on 23 August 2001.

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