Western Australian Current Acts

ELECTRICITY ACT 1945 - SECT 33E

33E .         Energy efficiency standards

        (1)         Regulations may be made under section 32 in respect of the conservation and management of electrical energy, and any such regulations may —

            (a)         set minimum energy efficiency standards with which any electrical apparatus or installation must comply; and

            (b)         specify procedures to be used, and measurements to be taken, to —

                  (i)         assess the relative energy efficiency of any electrical apparatus or installation; or

                  (ii)         ascertain whether or not any electrical apparatus or installation complies with prescribed energy efficiency standards;

                and

            (c)         provide for the declaration, by notice published in the Gazette , of —

                  (i)         the various types or classes of apparatus or installation that are to be subject to the regulations; and

                  (ii)         the procedures, measurements or formulae, either expressly or by reference to published technical documents, to be used for the evaluation of the energy consumption rate and the energy efficiency rating;

                and

            (d)         specify the product information standard requirements, and the form and manner of disclosure required, in relation to any such apparatus or installation; and

            (e)         prescribe labelling requirements; and

            (f)         provide that the requirements of this Act, or the specific requirements prescribed, are to be deemed to have been complied with if the apparatus or installation in question has been approved under, or is labelled in accordance with, the relevant provisions of a law of another State, or of a Territory, specified for the purpose of this paragraph by notice published in the Gazette ; and

            (g)         provide for exclusions or exemptions from the application of the regulations.

        (2)         The Director may approve an apparatus or installation, or a manner of labelling, for the purposes of this Part where —

            (a)         the apparatus or installation is approved, or the label is registered, by a duly constituted authority in another State of the Commonwealth; or

            (b)         the approval was given, or the labelling was carried out, by a person recognized by the Director as a competent authority for that purpose,

                and the apparatus or installation carries a mark recognized by the Director for that purpose.

        (3)         The Director may, by notice published in the Gazette , specify the authorities, the persons and the marks which are recognized by the Director for the purposes of subsection (2).

        (4)         An approval given by the Director for the purposes of this Part —

            (a)         is, unless sooner revoked, valid for 5 years or such lesser period as may be specified by the Director; and

            (b)         may be revoked by the Director.

        [Section 33E inserted: No. 63 of 1996 s. 13; amended: No. 10 of 1998 s. 31; No. 74 of 2003 s. 48(3).]