South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts11—Amendment of section 48—Entry for purposes related to infrastructure
(1) Section 48—after subsection (2) insert:
(2a) Despite subsection (2), an electricity officer may exercise a power of entry referred to in that subsection without giving notice in accordance with subsection (2) in relation to electricity infrastructure situated on land that is in the area of a council and in the bushfire risk area if—
(a) the purpose of the entry is to conduct an inspection of the infrastructure; and
(i) the electricity entity gives reasonable written notice of the date and time of the proposed entry to the occupier of the land; or
(ii) if it is not reasonably practicable for the electricity entity to give notice in accordance with subparagraph (i)
, the electricity entity—
(A) publishes, at least 1 month before the proposed inspection of infrastructure in the area of the council, a prescribed notice in a newspaper circulating within that area; and
(B) conducts the inspection during the period specified in the prescribed notice.
(2) Section 48—after subsection (7) insert:
(8) In this section—
"prescribed notice", in relation to an inspection of electricity infrastructure by an electricity entity in the area of a council, means a notice that specifies the period (of up to 1 month) during which the entity proposes to inspect its infrastructure in the area.