South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations18—Certain electrical installation work and certificates of compliance
(1) The following
provisions apply for the purposes of section 61(1) of the Act:
(a) work
on an electrical installation or proposed electrical installation that is work
of any kind referred to in AS/NZS 3000 or another Australian Standard or
Australian/New Zealand Standard called up by AS/NZS 3000 must be carried out,
and the installation must be examined and tested—
(i)
in accordance with AS/NZS 3000 and any
Australian Standard or Australian/New Zealand Standard called up by or under
AS/NZS 3000 and so that the installation complies with any other
technical and safety requirements under these regulations; and
(ii)
in accordance with the installation rules of the operator
of the transmission or distribution network to which the installation is or is
to be connected;
(b) the
registered electrical worker personally carrying out the examinations and
tests must, when satisfied that the work has been carried out in accordance
with the standards and requirements referred to in paragraph (a) and
before the installation is made available for energisation, complete and sign
a certificate of compliance to that effect;
(ba) the
certificate of compliance must be completed using only an official form
published or produced under the authority of the Technical Regulator;
(c) if
the worker signing the certificate was employed or engaged to carry out the
examinations and tests (whether or not together with other work on the
installation) by a licensed electrical contractor or licensed building work
contractor, that contractor, or a person who has or had a supervisory role in
relation to the worker and who is acting as a duly authorised agent of the
contractor, must, being satisfied that the standards and requirements referred
to in paragraph (a) have been complied with in relation to the work, also
complete and sign the certificate in accordance with the directions contained
in it;
(d) if
the work is associated with the making of a connection to a transmission or
distribution network, a copy of the certificate (completed and signed in
accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c)) must be furnished to the operator
of the network before the energisation of the work or a part of the work;
(e) if
the work was carried out on behalf of the owner or occupier of the premises
concerned (whether under a contract or arrangement made directly between the
owner or occupier and the person to whom section 61(1) of the Act applies,
under a subcontract or otherwise), a copy of the certificate (completed and
signed in accordance with paragraphs (b) and (c)) must be furnished to
the owner or occupier within 30 days after the installation was made available
for energisation;
(f) a
copy of the certificate (completed and signed in accordance with
paragraphs (b) and (c)) must be kept at the business premises of the
person to whom section 61(1) of the Act applies or, if that person does not
have business premises, at that person's residence for at least five years
after the installation was made available for energisation.
(1a) If a licensed
electrical contractor, licensed building work contractor or registered
electrical worker acquires a book of official forms that have been published
or produced under the authority of the Technical Regulator for use by that
person as certificates of compliance, the contractor or worker must ensure
that notice of the contractor's or worker's acquisition of the book of forms
is given to the Technical Regulator in accordance with the directions of the
Technical Regulator, as set out in the book of forms.
Maximum penalty: $750.
Expiation fee: $105.
(2) A certificate of
compliance may not be relied on by an owner or operator of an electrical
installation under section 60(2) of the Act if the certificate has been issued
in relation to the installation by a registered electrical worker who is an
employee of the owner or occupier.
(3) The provisions of
this regulation relating to certificates of compliance do not apply in
relation to work on an electrical installation or proposed electrical
installation in specified premises if the Technical Regulator has given an
exemption under this regulation in respect of the premises and the conditions
of the exemption are complied with.
(4) The Technical
Regulator may, on application or on the Technical Regulator's own initiative,
give an exemption as referred to in subregulation (3) subject to such
conditions as the Technical Regulator thinks fit, including conditions as to
the keeping of records relating to electrical work in the premises.