Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Amendment Regulation 2005 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Electricity Safety (Equipment

Efficiency) Amendment Regulation

2005

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.

CARL SCULLY, M.P.,

Minister for Utilities

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are:

(a)	to modify restrictions in the Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Regulation 1999 (the Principal Regulation) relating to the sale of refrigerated display cabinets labelled with an energy efficiency label, and
(b)	to no longer require a single phase ducted airconditioner or single phase ducted heat pump to be labelled with an energy efficiency label approved by the Energy Corporation of New South Wales before being sold but to require that, if any such label is displayed on such an article or equipment, it must be approved by the Corporation before sale, and
(c)	to require storage water heaters to comply with applicable energy efficiency requirements and performance criteria set out in new Australian and New Zealand Standards, and
(d)	to make other amendments to the Principal Regulation of a consequential or machinery nature.

This Regulation is made under the Electricity Safety Act 1945, including section 37

(the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 9 of 20 January 2006, page 416	Page 1
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Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Amendment

Regulation 2005

under the

Electricity Safety Act 1945

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency)
Amendment Regulation 2005.

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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Electricity Safety (Equipment Efficiency) Amendment Regulation 2005

Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

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

Insert “, refrigerated display cabinets” before “and rotating” in clause 15A (1).

[2]      Clause 17 Approval of energy efficiency label

Insert “, a refrigerated display cabinet” before “or a rotating” in clause
17 (1A).

[3]      Schedule 1 Fees

Omit “(Clauses 7 and 19)”. Insert instead “(Clauses 7, 8 and 19)”.

[4]      Schedule 2 Standards for electrical articles that require registration and labelling with an energy efficiency label

Omit the heading to clause 1. Insert instead:

1 Single phase airconditioners and single phase heat pumps (excluding ducted airconditioners and heat pumps)

[5]      Schedule 2, clause 1

Insert “(but not ducted airconditioners and heat pumps)” after “single phase heat pumps”.

[6]      Schedule 2, clause 1 (b)

Omit the paragraph.

[7]      Schedule 2, clause 4 (1)

Omit the subclause.

[8]      Schedule 2, clause 4 (2)

Omit “On and from 1 January 2005, the”. Insert instead “The”.

[9]      Schedule 3 Standards for electrical articles that require registration but not labelling with an energy efficiency label

Omit the heading to clause 1. Insert instead:

1 Ducted single phase airconditioners, ducted single phase heat pumps, three phase airconditioners and three phase heat pumps

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[10]      Schedule 3, clause 1

Insert “ducted single phase airconditioners, ducted single phase heat pumps,” after “standards for”.

[11]      Schedule 3, clause 6

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

6      Storage water heaters

The following are the relevant standards for storage water heaters:

(a)	AS/NZS 4692.1:2005, Electric Water Heaters, Part 1: Energy consumption, performance and general requirements,
(b)	AS/NZS 4692.2:2005, Electric Water Heaters, Part 2: Minimum Energy Performance Standard (MEPS) requirements and energy labelling.

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