Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 2019 - REG 611

    (1)     A person must not place any flammable material or allow flammable material to remain closer than 3000 millimetres in any direction from a wall or fence of any substation or switch yard that forms part of protected infrastructure.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (2)     A person must not place any flammable material or allow flammable material to remain vertically below a protected aerial line.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (3)     A person must not place any flammable material or allow flammable material to remain so that, at any time, the flammable material is closer than the relevant horizontal distance specified in Row A of Table 611 from any point of the vertical projection below a protected aerial line.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (4)     A person must not place any material or allow any material to remain so that, at any time, the material is closer than the relevant horizontal distance marked "h" specified in Row B of Table 611 from any point of the vertical projection below a protected aerial line unless the material is no closer vertically below the line than the vertical distance marked "v" specified in Row B of Table 611.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

Table 611—Minimum distances from materials to protected aerial lines

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7
		Aerial lines Nominal voltage ("U")
Type of material	U ≤ 1500V d.c. traction conductor	1 kV a.c. or 1500V d.c. < U ≤ 33 kV	33 kV < U ≤ 132 kV	132 kV < U ≤ 275 kV	275 kV < U ≤ 330 kV	330 kV < U ≤ 500 kV
Row A Flammable material Horizontal distance	3000 mm	3000 mm	3000 mm	4600 mm	5500 mm	6400 mm
Row B Any other material "h"	1500 mm	2100 mm	3000 mm	4500 mm	5500 mm	6400 mm
"v"	3700 mm	4600 mm	4600 mm	6800 mm	8000 mm	9800 mm