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2010/36

Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 1st day of March 2010

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Pursuant to sections 169, 169A, and 169B of the Electricity Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Contents

Part 1
Preliminary provisions

3 Application: things these regulations do not apply to

4 Interpretation

5 Meanings of electrically safe and electrically unsafe

6 Prescribed electrical work

7 Connectable installations

8 IEC shock current standards

Ambient temperature

9 New Zealand ambient temperature

10 Grade A and grade B offences

11 Strict liability offences

12 Infringement offences

Part 2
General safety requirements

Requirements for electrical safety

13 Doing work on works, installations, fittings, and appliances

14 Designing works, installations, fittings, and appliances

15 Using works, installations, fittings, appliances, and associated equipment

16 Minimising risk of contact with live conductive parts

17 Maintaining safe distances

18 Notices where high voltages used, generated, or transmitted

19 Notifying Secretary of danger

Things deemed electrically safe or electrically unsafe

20 Electrically unsafe works and installations

21 Electrically safe single-wire earth return systems

22 Electrically unsafe low voltage fittings

23 Electrically unsafe appliances

24 Electrically unsafe RCDs

25 Specific installations, fittings, and appliances deemed to be electrically safe

26 When fittings and appliances in use deemed to be electrically safe

Part 3
Systems of supply

27 Systems in general

28 Voltage supply to installations

29 Frequency of electricity supplied

30 Requirements relating to safety of electricity supplied

31 Requirements relating to quality of supply

32 Protection against fault currents

33 Requirements relating to construction of, or work in vicinity of, telecommunications equipment

Part 4
Safety of works

Rules applying in relation to all works

34 Protective fittings for works

35 Interference with, or movement of, works

36 Generating facilities and substations

37 Works constructed as low voltage installations

38 Testing works before connecting to supply

Works not covered by audited safety management systems

39 Regulations 40 to 46 do not apply to works covered by audited safety management systems

40 Safety checks of works

41 Structural loading on works

42 Requirements for earthing systems in works

43 Isolation fittings for works

44 High voltage conductors of overhead electric lines

45 Permanent notices on works

46 Keeping records and plans

Works covered by audited safety management systems

48 What safety management systems must do

49 Substantive requirements of safety management systems

50 Documentation of safety management systems

51 Audit of safety management systems

52 Audit certificate for safety management systems

53 Statutory declaration by safety management system operator

54 Cancellation of audit certificate

55 Certification and declaration deemed to be compliance with section 61A of Act

56 Offences by accredited auditors

Part 5
Safety of installations

57 Low voltage and extra-low voltage installations to comply with AS/NZS 3000

58 Declarations of conformity

59 Specific safety rules for installations under Part 1 of AS/NZS 3000

60 Certain installations must comply with Part 2 of AS/NZS 3000

61 Socket-outlets for operation at standard low voltage

62 High voltage installations

63 Signs when carrying out work on installations

64 Exemption for domestic electrical wiring work

Testing and certification

65 Testing prescribed electrical work on low voltage installations

66 Certification following prescribed electrical work

67 Certificate of compliance

68 What happens to certificate of compliance

69 Forms for certificates of compliance

70 What work must be inspected

71 Inspection of prescribed electrical work

72 Inspection of specific kinds of prescribed electrical work

Connecting installations

73 Verifying safety before connecting installations

74 Reconnecting low voltage installations on which no prescribed electrical work done

Periodic assessments

75 Periodic assessments of certain installations

Connectable installations

76 No supply without warrant of electrical fitness

77 Restrictions on use of connectable installations

78 Issue of warrants of electrical fitness for connectable installations

Part 6
Safety of fittings and appliances

79 Maintenance of domestic appliances

80 New and used fittings and appliances to be electrically safe

81 Evidence of compliance with standards

82 Offences relating to false or incorrect marking

83 Supplier declaration of conformity required before sale of declared medium risk articles

84 Declared high risk articles not to be sold unless approved

85 Approval by Secretary for sale of declared high risk articles

86 Deemed approval by Secretary for sale of declared high risk articles

87 Prohibitions relating to fittings and appliances

88 Supply of electricity to hand-held appliances

89 Use of hand-held appliances in damp, etc, conditions

Testing appliances

90 Testing appliances after certain work done on them

Periodic inspection of electrical medical devices

91 Periodic inspection of electrical medical devices

Part 7
Registration, employer licences, and Board provisions

What supervised persons and trainees may do

92 Limits of work that supervised persons may do

93 Limits of work that trainees may do

Employer licences

94 Requirements for system of operation of holders of employer licences

95 Certification of system of operation

96 Approved persons

Board provisions

97 Search criteria for register of electrical workers

98 Form of complaints

99 Fees payable to Board

Part 8
Working practices

100 Safety responsibilities of person who carries out work

101 Responsibility of employers for safety of employees

102 Work on live high voltage overhead electric lines

103 Work on live conductors of low voltage overhead electric lines in installations

104 Work on disconnected high voltage fittings

105 Work stringing additional conductors between poles or other supports

106 Notices when working on works and installations

107 Offences relating to Part 8

Part 9
Miscellaneous

Secretary's powers and obligations

108 Secretary's power to prescribe forms, etc

109 Secretary's power to exempt from requirements

110 Issuing urgent instructions, orders, or requirements

111 Gazette notices to be published on Internet site

112 Details that must be provided in reports of accidents

Transitional provisions

113 Existing and in-process works, installations, fittings, and appliances

114 Declared articles under previous regulations

115 Specified fittings and appliances under previous regulations

116 Secretary's exemptions

117 Warrants of electrical fitness

118 Certificates of compliance

119 Arbitrators

Revocation and amendments

120 Revocation of Electricity Regulations 1997

121 Amendment to Electricity (Hazards from Trees) Regulations 2003

122 Amendments to Electricity (China Free Trade Agreement) Regulations 2008

Schedule 1
Prescribed electrical work

Schedule 2
Electrical codes of practice and official standards cited in these regulations

Schedule 3
Infringement notice and reminder notice

Schedule 4
Standards applicable to fittings and appliances

Schedule 5
Prescribed fees payable to Secretary

Schedule 6
Prescribed fees payable to Board

Explanatory note

Administrative information

Regulations