Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Amendment Regulation 2003 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Electricity Safety (Equipment

Efficiency) Amendment Regulation

2003

under the

Electricity Safety Act 1945

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Electricity Safety Act 1945.

FRANK ERNEST SARTOR, M.P.,

Minister for Energy and Utilities

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency)

Regulation 1999:

(a)	to provide that fluorescent lamp ballasts must comply with the minimum energy performance standards specified in the relevant Australian Standard, and
(b)	to provide that fluorescent lamp ballasts must be legibly labelled with the appropriate energy efficiency index classification specified in the relevant Australian Standard, and
(c)	to omit the label approval requirements for high efficiency three phase electric motors, and
(d)	to make minor amendments consequential on the amendments referred to in paragraphs (a)–(c).

This Regulation is made under the Electricity Safety Act 1945, including section 37 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 161 of 3 October 2003, page 9729	Page 1
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Clause 1	Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Amendment Regulation 2003

Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Amendment

Regulation 2003

under the

Electricity Safety Act 1945

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency)
Amendment Regulation 2003.

2 Amendment of Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Regulation 1999

The Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Regulation 1999 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 15 Certain electrical articles to be appropriately labelled when sold

Insert after clause 15 (1):

(1A)	A person must not sell a fluorescent lamp ballast for use with an International Lamp Coding System (ILCOS) lamp type FD (type T) lamp unless the ballast is legibly labelled with the appropriate energy efficiency index classification specified in the relevant standard.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
(1B)	A person must not sell a rotating electrical machine (three phase) that is labelled with the text “high efficiency” unless the machine satisfies the requirements of the relevant standard.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

[2]      Clause 15 (4) and (5)

Omit the subclauses.

[3]      Clause 15A Other electrical articles may be appropriately labelled when sold

Insert “, except fluorescent lamp ballasts and rotating electrical machines
(three phase)” after “Schedule 3” in clause 15A (1).

[4]      Clause 17 Approval of energy efficiency label

Insert “, except a fluorescent lamp ballast or a rotating electrical machine
(three phase)” after “registers” in clause 17 (1A).

[5]      Clause 17 (1B)

Omit the subclause.

[6]      Schedule 2, heading

Insert “with an energy efficiency label” after “labelling”.

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Schedule 1 Amendments

[7]      Schedule 3, heading

Omit “only”.
Insert instead “but not labelling with an energy efficiency label”

[8]      Schedule 3

Insert in alphabetical order of the name of the article:

Fluorescent lamp	AS/NZS 4783.1:2001, Performance of electrical
ballasts for use with	lighting equipment—Ballasts for fluorescent lamps. Part
International Lamp	1: Method of measurement to determine energy
Coding System (ILCOS)	consumption and performance of ballasts lamp circuits
lamp type FD (type T)	AS/NZS 4783.2:2002, Performance of electrical
lamps	lighting equipment—Ballasts for fluorescent lamps. Part 2: Energy labelling and minimum energy performance standards requirements

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