Queensland Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REGULATION 2013 - REG 224

224 Generating plant for emergency supply

(1) This section applies to a person if private generating plant is—

(a) installed at the person’s premises as part of the person’s electrical installation; and

(b) intended to provide a supply of electricity (
"emergency supply" ) to the person’s electrical installation, or to the person’s electrical installation and the electrical installation of another person, during an interruption of the supply of electricity from a distribution entity.

(2) The person must ensure that, when the private generating plant is operating to give emergency supply, there is effective isolation between—

(a) all active conductors of the part of the electrical installation or electrical installations to which the private generating plant is connected; and

(b) any part of the electrical installation or electrical installations still connected to the supply from the distribution entity.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(3) The person must ensure the installation of the private generating plant complies with the requirements of the wiring rules.

Penalty—

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