Victorian Numbered Regulations

ELECTRICITY SAFETY (INSTALLATIONS) REGULATIONS 2009 (SR NO 164 OF 2009) - REG 223

    (1)     A low voltage aerial line on public land or on private land not owned or leased by the owner of the line or a d.c. traction conductor must not, at any time, be closer to—

        (a)     the ground; or

        (b)     the surface of any water that is not accessible to boats with masts—

than the relevant minimum distance specified in Column 2, 3 or 4 of Table 223.1 for the location of the aerial line specified in Column 1 of that Table.

    (2)     A high voltage aerial line at the location specified in Column 1 of Table 223.2 must not, at any time, be closer to—

        (a)     the ground; or

        (b)     the surface of any water that is not accessible to boats with masts—

than the relevant minimum distance specified for those types of aerial lines in Column 2, 3 or 4 of Table 223.2 opposite those lines.

    (3)     An aerial line must not, at any time, be closer than 13 500 millimetres to the surface of any water that is accessible to boats with masts.

    (4)     The minimum distances specified in Column 2, 3, or 4 of Tables 223.1 and 223.2 do not apply to a part of an aerial line that is within a substation.

    (5)     In Tables 223.1 and 223.2—

"arterial road" means a road designated as an arterial road in the VicRoads Country Street Directory;

"collector road" means a road designated as a collector road in the Melways Street Directory but does not include such a road that is also—

        (a)     an over-dimensional route; or

        (b)     a relevant docks road;

"freeway" means a road designated as a freeway in—

        (a)     the Melways Street Directory; or

        (b)     the VicRoads Country Street Directory;

"major road" means a road designated as a major road in the Melways Street Directory but does not include such a road that is also—

        (a)     an over-dimensional route; or

        (b)     a relevant docks road;

"over-dimensional route" means a road designated as an over-dimensional route in the Melways Street Directory;
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"primary state arterial road "means a road designated as a primary state arterial road in the Melways Street Directory;

"road" means a road shown in—

        (a)     the Melways Street Directory; or

        (b)     VicRoads Country Street Directory;

"relevant docks road" means any of the following roads or streets—

        (a)     Anderson Road, West Melbourne;

        (b)     Appleton Dock Road, West Melbourne;

        (c)     Coode Road, West Melbourne;

        (d)     Cowper Street, Footscray;

        (e)     Dock Link Road, West Melbourne;

        (f)     Gibbons Street, West Melbourne;

        (g)     MacKenzie Road, West Melbourne;

        (h)     Phillipps Road, West Melbourne;

"secondary state arterial road" means a road designated as a secondary state arterial road in the Melways Street Directory but does not include such a road that is also an over-dimensional route;

"tollway" means a road designated as a tollway in the Melways Street Directory.

TABLE 223.1—Minimum distances to the ground or water surface
from low voltage aerial lines on public land or within an
easement on private land or traction conductors

	Type of aerial line
Column 1 Location of aerial line	Column 2 Bare live conductors	Column 3 Insulated live conductors	Column 4 Direct current traction conductors
	Minimum distance to ground or surface of water
Over a 2000 mm wide strip in the centre of each carriageway of a road	5500 mm	5500 mm	5000 mm
Over any other part of a freeway, tollway, primary state arterial road, arterial road, overdimensional route or relevant docks road	5500 mm	5500 mm	5000 mm
Over any other part of a secondary state arterial road, major road or collector road	5500 mm	4900 mm	5000 mm
Over any other part of any other road	5500 mm	4600 mm	5000 mm
Over any part of a driveway	5500 mm	4600 mm	5000 mm
Over any other ground traversable by vehicles (other than a road)	5500 mm	4600 mm	5000 mm
At the connection to a building or structure (excluding a pole)	Not permitted	3000 mm	Not permitted
Over the surface of any water not accessible to boats with masts	4500 mm	4500 mm	4500 mm
Elsewhere	5000 mm	3000 mm	4500 mm

TABLE 223.2—Minimum distances to the ground or water surface from high voltage aerial lines

	Minimum distance
Column 1 Type of aerial line Nominal voltage ("U")	Column 2 Carriageway of roads	Column 3 Ground traversable by vehicles (other than a road)	Column 4 Other ground or the surface of any water not accessible to boats with masts
Alternating current insulated with earthed screen U > 1kV	5500 mm	5500 mm	4500 mm
Alternating current insulated without an earthed screen U > 1kV	6000 mm	5500 mm	4500 mm
Bare or covered 1kV a.c or 1500V d.c. < U ≤ 33kV	6700 mm	5500 mm	5000 mm
Bare or covered 33kV < U ≤ 132kV	6700 mm	6700 mm	5500 mm
Bare or covered 132kV < U ≤ 275kV	8700 mm	7500 mm	6700 mm
Bare or covered 275kV < U ≤ 330kV	9700 mm	8000 mm	6700 mm
330kV < U ≤ 500kV	11 400 mm	10 700 mm	10 700 mm