Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) The electricity supply to an electrical installation must be controlled on the main switchboard by a main switch or switches that control the whole of the electrical installation.
(2) Despite subregulation (1), the following electrical equipment is not required to be controlled by a main switch—
(a) consumers mains;
(b) equipment for metering or the control or protection of metered or metering circuits owned by a major electricity company, an interstate electricity supplier or a retailer;
(c) a service protective device owned by a major electricity company or an interstate electricity supplier;
(d) any ancillary equipment, measuring equipment, and associated wiring that are required to be connected to the supply side of the main switch or switches, provided that the wiring and equipment are confined within or on the switchboard;
(e) equipment, such as voltage sensing equipment, associated with a safety service that is connected on the supply side of a main switch in accordance with Australian/New Zealand Wiring Rules;
(f) equipment, such as voltage sensing equipment, associated with an alternative supply system that is connected on the supply side of a main switch in accordance with Australian/New Zealand Wiring Rules;
(g) fault-current limiters;
(h) surge diverters installed to protect consumers mains or main switchboards;
(i) an over-current protective device of the kind required by regulation 220(2) that is installed at the origin of a overhead private electric line;
(j) consumer's terminals.
(3) Despite subregulation (1), an electricity supply to an electrical installation that is supplied by a generation system contained within that electrical installation may be controlled by a main switch on a switchboard that is not the main switchboard.