Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The Administrator may make regulations under this Act.
(2) A regulation may provide for the following:
(a) ways of discharging a person's electrical safety duty;
(b) ways of ensuring the electrical safety of individuals and property;
(c) safety and technical requirements for electrical work;
(d) safety and technical requirements for working in contact with, or near to, an exposed conductor or an exposed component of an item of electrical equipment;
(e) safety, technical and certification requirements for electrical equipment, including for the sale, testing and use of electrical equipment;
(f) safety and technical requirements for the electricity infrastructure and for electricity supply;
(g) amendments, cancellations, suspensions and transfers of certificates and other authorities required under the regulation;
(h) requirements for the labelling, marking, testing and disposal of electrical equipment;
(i) requirements for signs or other advertising material for the sale of electrical equipment;
(j) requirements for safety management and mitigation plans;
(k) safety, technical and registration requirements for cathodic protection systems;
(l) notification and reporting requirements for serious electrical events and dangerous electrical events;
(m) matters about licences, including the following:
(i) classes of licences;
(ii) the periods for which particular licences are to be in force;
(iii) financial and insurance requirements for the holders of licences;
(iv) particular requirements applying to the making of applications for the issue or renewal of licences;
(v) eligibility requirements for the issue or renewal of licences, including suitability for particular qualifications and successful completion of examinations or courses
(vi) the keeping of a register for recording licence information;
(vii) requirements for keeping licences and registers up to date, including for the provision of information for keeping licences and registers up to date;
(viii) restrictions on advertising by the holders of licences;
(n) matters relating to the registration of suppliers and consumer electrical equipment in the national register, including the renewal and cancellation of the registration;
(o) matters relating to the classification, approval and sale of consumer electrical equipment, the keeping of evidence and certificates regarding standards;
(p) matters relating to the declaration of a scheme as an external certification scheme under section 36 including the imposition of conditions on, and the cancellation of, the declaration;
(q) discipline of the holders of licences;
(r) reviews and appeals of matters under this Act;
(s) fees payable under this Act and the recovery of costs incurred by the Electrical Safety Regulator or the Board under this Act;
(t) the imposition of charges for the carrying out of activities of a distribution entity authorised under the Act;
(u) matters of an administrative nature.
(3) The regulations may:
(a) provide that an offence against the regulations is an offence of strict or absolute liability; and
(b) prescribe a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units for an offence against the regulations, other than an offence of strict liability or absolute liability; and
(c) prescribe a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units for an offence against the regulations that is an offence of strict liability or absolute liability.