Electricity Supply (Safety and Network Management) Amendment (Directions for Bush Fire Risk Mitigation Work) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Electricity Supply (Safety and Network

Management) Amendment (Directions for
Bush Fire Risk Mitigation Work) Regulation

2014

under the

Electricity Supply Act 1995

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Electricity Supply Act 1995.

ANTHONY ROBERTS, MP

Minister for Resources and Energy

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to specify additional matters that must be included in a direction to do bush fire risk mitigation work given by a network operator to the owner or occupier of premises on private bush fire prone land.

This Regulation is made under the Electricity Supply Act 1995, including sections 53E (Contents of direction) and 191 (the general regulation-making power).

Electricity Supply (Safety and Network Management) Amendment (Directions for Bush Fire Risk Mitigation

Work) Regulation 2014 [NSW]

Electricity Supply (Safety and Network Management)
Amendment (Directions for Bush Fire Risk Mitigation Work)

Regulation 2014

under the

Electricity Supply Act 1995

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Electricity Supply (Safety and Network Management)
Amendment (Directions for Bush Fire Risk Mitigation Work) Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Electricity Supply (Safety and Network Management) Regulation 2014

Clause 42A

Insert after clause 42:

42A Directions for bush fire risk mitigation work on private land

For the purposes of section 53E (3) of the Act, a direction must include:

(a)

the contact details for the network operator giving the notice, and

(b)

either:

(i)

an estimate of the potential costs should the network operator be required to undertake the bush fire risk mitigation work required by the direction (because of a failure by the owner to comply with the direction), or

(ii)

the internet address of a website maintained by the network operator that sets out an indicative range of costs for various types of vegetation management or defect rectification work, and an explanation that those costs will apply should the network operator be required to undertake the bush fire risk mitigation work required by the direction (because of a failure by the owner to comply with the direction).