New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 53C

53C Power to give directions for bush fire risk mitigation work on private land

(1) A network operator may by a written notice given to the owner or occupier of any premises on bush fire prone land that is private land direct the owner of the premises to do bush fire risk mitigation work on vegetation or aerial consumers mains on the premises if the network operator has determined that--

(a) the vegetation could make the network operator's electricity works become a potential cause of bush fire, or

(b) the vegetation fails to satisfy the requirements of any standard (adopted by the network operator for the purposes of reducing the risk of bush fire) as to required clearances between vegetation and electricity works or aerial consumers mains, or

(c) the vegetation could make aerial consumers mains on the premises become a potential cause of bush fire, or

(d) a fault or defect in the aerial consumers mains could make them become a potential cause of bush fire.

(2) The work that can be directed to be done as bush fire risk mitigation work is--

(a) for vegetation, the trimming or removal of the vegetation, or

(b) for a fault or defect in aerial consumers mains, the repair of the fault or defect.