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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Electricity Industry Amendment (Critical
Infrastructure) Bill 2009
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Clause Page
1 Purpose 1
2 Commencement 2
3 Principal Act 2
4 New definitions inserted 2
5 New Part 4 inserted 3
PART 4--PROTECTION OF CRITICAL ELECTRICITY
INFRASTRUCTURE 3
79 Being on premises or land or in enclosure where there
is critical electricity infrastructure prohibited 3
80 Unauthorised interference with critical electricity
infrastructure plant or equipment or vehicles 4
6 Repeal of Act 5
ENDNOTES 6
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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Introduced in the Assembly
Electricity Industry Amendment
(Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2009
A Bill for an Act to amend the Electricity Industry Act 2000 to
provide for the protection of critical electricity infrastructure and
critical electricity infrastructure plant or equipment or related vehicles
and for other purposes.
The Parliament of Victoria enacts:
1 Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to amend the
Electricity Industry Act 2000 to create new
offences in relation to--
5 (a) without authority, being on land or premises
on which, or in enclosures in which, critical
electricity infrastructure is situated; and
(b) damaging, interfering or tampering with or
attaching things to critical electricity
10 infrastructure plant or equipment or certain
related vehicles without authority.
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2 Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day after the
day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Principal Act
5 See: In this Act the Electricity Industry Act 2000 is
Act No.
68/2000. called the Principal Act.
Reprint No. 5
as at
1 July 2009
and
amending
Act No.
41/2009.
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4 New definitions inserted
In section 3 of the Principal Act insert the
following definitions--
10 "critical electricity infrastructure means--
(a) a critical generation facility; or
(b) a related coal mine; or
(c) a substation, terminal station or
distribution system or transmission
15 system switchyard;
Note
Electricity is converted, transformed and
controlled at a substation, terminal station, or
distribution system or transmission system
20 switchyard.
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critical generation facility--
(a) means a generation facility that--
(i) generates electricity; and
(ii) has an installed or name plate
5 generation capacity of 1000 kVA
or greater; and
(b) includes a water storage facility
associated with a generation facility
referred to in paragraph (a);
10 related coal mine--
(a) means a coal mine from which coal is
extracted for use in a critical generation
facility; and
(b) includes a water storage facility
15 associated with a coal mine referred to
in paragraph (a);".
5 New Part 4 inserted
After Part 3 of the Principal Act insert--
"PART 4--PROTECTION OF CRITICAL
20 ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE
79 Being on premises or land or in enclosure
where there is critical electricity
infrastructure prohibited
A person must not be present on land or
25 premises on which, or in an enclosure in
which, critical electricity infrastructure is
situated knowing that he or she does not
have authority to be present on that land or
those premises or in that enclosure.
30 Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year.
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80 Unauthorised interference with critical
electricity infrastructure plant or
equipment or vehicles
(1) A person who--
5 (a) damages, interferes or tampers with, or
attaches a thing to plant or equipment
that forms part of critical electricity
infrastructure or that is on land or
premises on which, or in an enclosure
10 in which, critical electricity
infrastructure is situated (the prohibited
act); and
(b) knows that he or she does not have
authority to do the prohibited act; and
15 (c) is reckless as to whether the prohibited
act will result in a disruption to the
generation, transmission or distribution
of electricity--
is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of
20 imprisonment not exceeding 2 years.
Examples
Examples of plant or equipment are: bucket dredgers,
conveyer belts, boilers, pumps, cooling towers,
pipelines, sprays, turbines, transformers, switching
25 equipment, telemetry equipment and emergency
services equipment.
(2) A person who--
(a) damages, interferes or tampers with, or
attaches a thing to a relevant
30 infrastructure vehicle that is on land or
premises on which, or in an enclosure
in which, critical electricity
infrastructure is situated (the prohibited
act); and
35 (b) knows that he or she does not have
authority to do the prohibited act; and
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(c) is reckless as to whether the prohibited
act will result in a disruption to the
generation, transmission or distribution
of electricity--
5 is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of
imprisonment not exceeding 2 years.
(3) In subsection (2), relevant infrastructure
vehicle means a vehicle used as part of the
production process for the generation of
10 electricity or for the purpose of maintaining
critical electricity infrastructure.
__________________".
6 Repeal of Act
This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of its
15 commencement.
Note
The repeal of this Act does not affect the continuing operation of
the amendments made by it (see section 15(1) of the
Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984).
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Endnotes
ENDNOTES
By Authority. Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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