Electricity Act 1945 (WA)

Western Australia

Western Australia

Electricity Act 1945

An Act to make provision as to the examination and licensing of persons in respect of their competency to carry out works relating to electricity, and the examination, prohibition or approval of electrical appliances; to repeal the Electricity Act 1937; and for other relative purposes.

[Long title amended: No. 86 of 1979 s. 3; No. 33 of 2004 s. 4.]

[Heading inserted: No. 19 of 2010 s. 43(3)(a).]

This Act may be cited as the Electricity Act 1945, and shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

[2. Deleted: No. 10 of 1998 s. 76.]

[Heading deleted: No. 19 of 2010 s. 43(3)(b).]

• (1)

  The Electricity Act 1937 (No. 45 of 1937), is hereby repealed.

• (2)

  Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of section 16 of the Interpretation Act 1918 1, in relation to any act, matter or thing done or arising under the provisions of the said Electricity Act 1937, prior to the commencement of this Act.

[4. Deleted: No. 89 of 1994 s. 66.]

• (1)

  This Act does not apply to or in relation to any Government electric railway under the Government Railways Act 1904 that is operated at a nominal pressure of 25 kv and the traction system and the signalling and communication systems ancillary thereto whether or not those systems are operated at a pressure of 25 kv.

• (2)

  Subsection (1) does not of itself have any implication with respect to the Crown in relation to this Act.

[Section 4A inserted: No. 42 of 1988 s. 4.]

• (1)

  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

AES registration holder means a registration holder as defined in the Electricity Industry Act 2004 section 3(1);

alternative electricity service has the meaning given in the Electricity Industry Act 2004 section 3(1);

apparatus means any apparatus, equipment, plant, or appliance in which electricity is capable of being, or is, or is intended to be transmitted, distributed, used, consumed or converted and includes any meter, fitting, or connection;

consumer means any person to whom electricity is supplied;

Coordinator means the Coordinator of Energy referred to in section 4 of the Energy Coordination Act 1994;

Director means the Director of Energy Safety referred to in section 5 of the Energy Coordination Act 1994;

distribution licensee means the holder of —

• (a)

  a distribution licence under the Electricity Industry Act 2004; or

• (b)

  an integrated regional licence under the Electricity Industry Act 2004 that authorises the holder to operate a distribution system as defined in section 3 of that Act;

distribution works means any works, including lines, poles, switches, and transformers and all apparatus and other equipment or plant used in conjunction therewith, and…