Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REGULATION 2013 - REG 193

193 Labelling faulty portable electrical equipment

(1) This section applies if a person acting under the authority of a distribution entity finds, at a place occupied by a consumer, an item of portable electrical equipment that has a serious defect.

(2) The distribution entity must ensure that a label is attached to the item of electrical equipment stating that the item is electrically unsafe.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(3) A person must not take the label off the item of electrical equipment or connect a source of electricity to the item unless the item—

(a) has been repaired by a licensed electrical worker qualified to repair it; or

(b) has been repaired by a person who, because of the operation of section 18 (2) (d) of the Act , was not performing electrical work in repairing the equipment.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty for subsection (3) —40 penalty units.