Electricity (Electrical Articles) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 1995 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1995 No. 290 Electricity Act 1994 ELECTRICITY (ELECTRICAL ARTICLES) AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 1) 1995 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Amendment of s 28 (Costs of testing etc.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Replacement of s 33 (Notice of prohibition to hirers and suppliers) . . . . . . 2 33 Absence of notice of under s 108A not a defence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Insertion of new s 108A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 108A Notification of decisions and appeal rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 MINOR AMENDMENTS

s1 2 s5 Electricity (Electrical Articles) Amendment (No. 1) No. 290, 1995 ˙ Short title 1. This regulation may be cited as the Electricity (Electrical Articles) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 1995 . ˙ Regulation amended 2. This regulation amends the Electricity (Electrical Articles) Regulation1994 . ˙ Amendment of s 28 (Costs of testing etc.) 3. Section 28(3), ‘for any damage done to the article’— omit, insert— ‘for damage necessarily caused to the electrical article to enable the article to be properly tested and examined’. ˙ Replacement of s 33 (Notice of prohibition to hirers and suppliers) 4. Section 33— omit, insert— ˙ ‘ Absence of notice of under s 108A not a defence ‘ 33. The fact that a notice that must be given under section 108A 1 to a likely or known hirer or supplier of an electrical article, for which a prohibition is in force under section 32(1), has not been received is not a defence in a proceeding against a person who has hired or sold an electrical article in contravention of section 32(2).’. ˙ Insertion of new s 108A 5. Chapter 4, after section 108— insert— 1 Section 108A (Notification of decisions and appeal rights).

s5 3 s5 Electricity (Electrical Articles) Amendment (No. 1) No. 290, 1995 ˙ ‘ Notification of decisions and appeal rights ‘ 108A.(1) When the Regulator makes a decision mentioned in schedule 9, the Regulator must, within 28 days after making the decision, give to the persons mentioned in subsection (2) a written notice stating the following— (a) the decision; (b) the reasons for the decision; (c) the persons may appeal against the decision under section 109. ‘ (2) The persons the Regulator must give notice to under subsection (1) are as follows— (a) all persons who applied to the Regulator to make the decision; (b) for decisions under sections 12 and 43—the applicant; (c) for decisions under sections 18 and 20—the registered declarant; (d) for decisions under section 19—the registered declarant and the proposed transferee; (e) as far as practicable, likely or known hirers or suppliers of an electrical article prohibited from sale or hire under section 32; (f) for decisions under sections 48 and 52—the holder of the label; (g) for decisions under section 50—the holder of the label and the proposed transferee; (h) other persons whose interests the Regulator knows are affected by the decision.’.

4 Electricity (Electrical Articles) Amendment (No. 1) No. 290, 1995 ¡ SCHEDULE MINOR AMENDMENTS section 2 1. Section 12(2)— omit. 2. Section 18(2)— omit. 3. Section 19(5)— omit. 4. Section 20(3)— omit. 5. Section 43, heading— omit, insert — ‘ Refusal to register efficiency label ’. 6. Section 43(2) — omit.

5 Electricity (Electrical Articles) Amendment (No. 1) SCHEDULE (continued) 7. Section 48, heading— omit, insert— ‘ Refusal to change registered efficiency label ’. No. 290, 1995 8. Section 48(2)— omit. 9. Section 50(5)— omit. 10. Section 52(2)— omit. 11. Chapter 4, heading— omit, insert— ‘CHAPTER 4—NOTIFICATION OF DECISIONS BY REGULATORS AND APPEALS’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 19 October 1995. 2. Notified in the gazette on 20 October 1995. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Minerals and Energy. © State of Queensland 1995