Electricity Amendment Regulations 2000 (WA)

30 May 2000] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2567

-PART 1-

ENERGY

EG3OP

Electricity Act 1945

Electricity Amendment Regulations 2000

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.

Citation Regulations 2000.

2. The regulations

amended Regulations 1947*

[* Reprinted as authorized 21 August 1968.

For amendments to 28 February 2000 see 1998 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 73-5.]

3.            Regulation 1 and Part I replaced and Parts H and Ill inserted

Regulation 1 and Part I are repealed and the following Parts are inserted instead -

regulations.

Part I - Preliminary

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Electricity
Regulations 1947.

2.             Interpretation

the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3000 -

Unless the contrary intention appears, words defined in of Australia and as amended from time to time, have the same respective meanings when used in these

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Part II— Energy efficiency labelling

3.            Application of this Part

This Part applies to an apparatus or installation of a type or class declared by the Director, by notice published in the Gazette, to be subject to this Part if and when that apparatus or installation is -

(a)	sold, whether by wholesale or retail, as a new apparatus or installation;
(b)	exposed or advertised for sale, whether by wholesale or retail, as a new apparatus or installation;
(c)	hired; or
(d)	exposed or advertised for hire.

4.           Energy efficiency label to be displayed

(1) An apparatus or installation to which this Part applies

must be labelled with a label that -

(a) sets out -

(i)     the brand and model of the apparatus or installation; and

(ii)

the comparative energy consumption, efficiency star rating of the apparatus or installation,

whether with or without other particulars;

(b) is approved or registered as a label under a law

referred to in section 33E(1)(f) of the Act; and

(c) is displayed on the apparatus or installation in a prominent and unobscured position.

(2) The requirements of this regulation are deemed to be

complied with if the apparatus or installation is labelled
in accordance with the relevant requirements of a law
referred to in section 33E(1)(0 of the Act.

5.            Display fronts

A person must not, in connection with the sale or hiring
of an apparatus or installation to which this Part
applies, exhibit a model or display which is intended to
represent all or part of that apparatus or installation
unless the model or display is labelled in accordance
with regulation 4 as if it were the apparatus or
installation.

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6.            Director may grant temporary exemptions

(1)	The Director may, by notice in writing, exempt an apparatus or installation, or a class or type of apparatus or installation, from all or any of the requirements of regulations 4 and 5, for such period, and on such conditions, as the Director considers appropriate and are set Out in that notice.
(2)	The Director must not grant an exemption under subregulation (1) unless the Director is satisfied that -

(a)	there are special circumstances which justify exempting the apparatus or installation from the requirements of those regulations;
(b)	those circumstances are temporary; and
(c)	the exemption will not unduly disadvantage -

(i)     the public; or

(ii)

people who manufacture, or deal in, comply with those regulations.

7. Misleading information
A person must not -

(a)	display a label on;
(b)	cause to be published any advertisement for the sale or hire of; or
(c)	produce, distribute or display any brochure, sign or other promotional material relating to,

an apparatus or installation to which this Part applies, if
the label, advertisement or promotional material
contains information of the kind referred to in

regulation 4(1)(a)(ii) which the person knows, or ought

reasonably to have known, is false, misleading or likely

to mislead. 
Penalty:  In the case of an individual, $5 000.

In the case of a body corporate, $20 000.

8.            Use of unregistered labels

A person must not display on an apparatus or
installation to which this Part applies, a label which is
not approved or registered as a label under a law
referred to in section 33E(1)(0 of the Act but which is
deceptively similar to labels which are so approved or
registered, if the person knows, or ought reasonably to
have known, that the label was not so approved or
registered.
Penalty: In the case of an individual, $5 000.

In the case of a body corporate, $20 000.

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Part III -Minimum energy performance

standards

9.            Application of this Part

This Part applies to an apparatus or installation of a type or class declared by the Director, by notice published in the Gazette, to be subject to this Part.

10.          Minimum standards for energy efficiency

(1) A person must not

(a) sell;

(b)	expose or advertise for sale; or
(c)	cause to be sold or exposed or advertised for sale,

as a new apparatus or installation, any apparatus or
installation to which this Part applies unless the
apparatus or installation complies with the minimum
standards for energy efficiency set Out in a law

specified in a notice published under subregulation (2).

Penalty:  In the case of an individual, $5 000.
In the case of a body corporate, $20 000.

(2) The Director may, by notice published in the Gazette,

specify all or part of a law of another State or of a
Territory for the purposes of subregulation (1).

11.          Director may grant temporary exemptions

(1)	The Director may, by notice in writing, exempt an apparatus or installation, or a class or type of apparatus
or installation, from the requirements of regulation 10, for such period, and on such conditions, as the Director considers appropriate and are set Out in that notice.
(2)	The Director must not grant an exemption under subregulation (1) unless the Director is satisfied that -

(a) there are special circumstances which justify exempting the apparatus or installation from the requirements of regulation 10;

(b) those circumstances are temporary; and

(c) the exemption will not unduly disadvantage -

(i)     the public; or

(ii)

people who manufacture, or deal in, comply with that regulation.

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4.             Part headings amended

(I) The heading to Part VIII is repealed and the following heading

is inserted instead -

Part VIII - Supply of electricity to consumers

(2) The heading to Part IX is repealed and the following heading is

inserted instead -

Part IX - General safety requirements for

electrical work

5.             Various headings deleted

(1) The headings immediately before each of the regulations set out

in the Table to this subregulation are deleted.

Table of headings to be deleted

238	252	266	326
239	254	267	327
240	255	268	328
241	256	271	329
243	257	272	330
244	258	273	332
245	259	274	333
246	260	275	334
247	261	276	335
248	262	277	336
249	263	279	337
250	264	321	338
251	265	322	341

(2) The headings set Out in column 2 of the Table to this

subregulation that appeared immediately before each of the now
repealed regulations set Out in column 1 of that Table are

deleted.

Table of headings to be deleted

Column 1 -	Colurnii 2	Ileaditig
Repealed regulation

242   Connection of Installations

253   Inspection of Installations

269   Meter Readings

270   Testing of Meters

323   Testing of Electrical Appliances

324   Testing Under Special Circumstances

325   Re-test

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Column 1 —	Column 2— Heading
Repealed regulation

331 Appliances to be Submitted for Examination
and Testing if the Commission so Requires

339   Fees for Examination, Testing, etc.

340 (in Part X) Penalties

6.            Regulations repealed

The Electricity (Energy Efficiency Labelling) Regulations 1997 are repealed.

By Command of the Governor,

ROD SPENCER, Clerk of the Executive Council.