Electrical Safety Regulation 2013

This section applies if a person acting under the authority of a distribution entity finds, at a place occupied by a consumer, an item of portable electrical equipment that has a serious defect.

The distribution entity must ensure that a label is attached to the item of electrical equipment stating that the item is electrically unsafe.Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

A person must not take the label off the item of electrical equipment or connect a source of electricity to the item unless the item—

has been repaired by a licensed electrical worker qualified to repair it; or

has been repaired by a person who, because of the operation of section 18(2)(d) of the Act, was not performing electrical work in repairing the equipment.