New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2017 - REG 149

149 Unsafe electrical equipment

(1) A person conducting a business or undertaking at a workplace must ensure that any unsafe electrical equipment at the workplace--

(a) is disconnected (or isolated) from its electricity supply, and

(b) once disconnected (or isolated)--

(i) is not reconnected until it is repaired or tested and found to be safe, or

(ii) is replaced or permanently removed from use.

: Maximum penalty--

(a) in the case of an individual--40 penalty units, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--210 penalty units.

(2) For the purposes of this clause, electrical equipment or a component of electrical equipment is
"unsafe" if there are reasonable grounds for believing it to be unsafe.