Victorian Numbered Acts

ELECTRICITY SAFETY AMENDMENT (BUSHFIRE MITIGATION) ACT 2014 (NO. 2 OF 2014) - SECT 7

For section 84 of the Principal Act substitute —

        "     84     Requirement to keep trees clear of electric lines—distribution companies

A distribution company is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of an electric line within its distribution area unless under this Subdivision another person is responsible for—

        (a)     the maintenance of the line; or

        (b)     the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the line.

Note

Section 3 defines maintenance in relation to an electric line or a private electric line as including the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the line.

        84A     Requirement to maintain line—occupiers of land with private or low voltage electric lines

    (1)     An occupier of land above or below the surface of which there is a private electric line is responsible for the maintenance of that line.

Note

Section 3 defines maintenance in relation to a private electric line as including the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the line.

    (2)     An occupier of land on which there is a low voltage electric line which solely services that land is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree situated on the land clear of that line.

        84B     Requirement to keep trees clear of private electric lines—occupiers of contiguous land

    (1)     An occupier of land that is contiguous to land on which there is a private electric line is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree situated on the occupier's land clear of the line.

    (2)     For the purposes of this section, the occupier may enter onto the land on which there is a private electric line and perform any acts necessary to keep a tree clear of the line.

        84C     Requirement to keep trees clear of electric lines—Councils

A Council responsible for the management of public land in an area of land declared under section 81 is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree situated on that land clear of an electric line that is not a private electric line.

        84D     Requirement to keep trees clear of electric lines—other persons

A person (other than a distribution company) who owns or operates an electric line, or installs or uses an electric line under an Act of the Commonwealth, is responsible for the keeping of the whole or any part of a tree clear of the electric line.".