Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) The owner of a registered cathodic protection system that uses impressed current must ensure that a time switch is able to be inserted in the system, or that the system has another suitable means of interrupting the power supply, for test purposes.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) The owner of a registered cathodic protection system that uses galvanic anodes must ensure that the circuit between any anode of the system and the metallic structures to be protected is able to be readily disconnected for test purposes, unless exempted under subregulation (5).
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(3) The owner of a registered cathodic protection system ( the applicant ) may apply to Energy Safe Victoria to be exempted from the requirement in subregulation (2).
(4) An application for exemption must—
(a) be in writing; and
(b) state the reasons for the exemption.
(5) Energy Safe Victoria may grant an exemption if satisfied that the applicant demonstrates that the cathodic protection system is not likely to interfere with other metallic structures.
(6) An exemption granted under subregulation (5) may specify conditions to which the exemption is subject.
(7) A person who is granted an exemption under this regulation must comply with the conditions (if any) of the exemption.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.