Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010

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Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010

(SR 2010/36)

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 1st day of March 2010

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.

Pursuant to sections 169, 169A, and 169B of the Electricity Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1	Title
2	Commencement
	Part 1 Preliminary provisions
	Application
3	Application: things these regulations do not apply to
	Definitions
4	Interpretation
5	Meanings of electrically safe and electrically unsafe
6	Prescribed electrical work
6A	Meaning of low-risk, high-risk, and general prescribed electrical work
7	Connectable installations
8	IEC shock current standards
	Ambient temperature
9	New Zealand ambient temperature
	Penalty levels
10	Level 1 and level 2 penalties defined
11	Strict liability offences
12	Infringement offences
	Part 2 General safety requirements
	Requirements for electrical safety
13	Doing work on works, installations, fittings, and appliances
14	Designing works, installations, fittings, and appliances
14A	Manufacturer’s instructions
15	Using works, installations, fittings, appliances, and associated equipment
15A	Fittings and appliances at rented residential premises
16	Minimising risk of contact with live conductive parts
17	Maintaining safe distances
18	Notices where high voltages used, generated, or transmitted
18A	Signs when carrying out prescribed electrical work
19	Notifying WorkSafe of danger
	Things deemed electrically safe or electrically unsafe
20	Electrically unsafe works and installations
21	Electrically safe single-wire earth return systems [Revoked]
22	Electrically unsafe low voltage fittings
23	Electrically unsafe appliances
24	Electrically unsafe RCDs
24A	Electrically unsafe safety-critical equipment
24B	Electrically unsafe electrical work in relation to certain mining electrical equipment
25	Specific installations, fittings, and appliances deemed to be electrically safe
26	When fittings and appliances in use deemed to be electrically safe
	Part 3 Systems of supply
27	Systems in general
28	Voltage supply to installations
29	Frequency of electricity supplied
30	Requirements relating to safety of electricity supplied
31	Requirements relating to quality of supply
32	Protection against fault currents
33	Requirements relating to construction of, or work in vicinity of, telecommunications equipment
33A	Limits of operation of SWER systems in relation to telecommunications
	Part 4 Safety of works
	Rules applying in relation to all works
34	Protective fittings for works
35	Interference with, or movement of, works
36	Generating facilities and substations
37	Works constructed as low voltage installations
37A	Trolley bus supply systems must be treated as works
38	Testing works before connecting to supply
	Works not covered by audited safety management systems
39	Regulations 40 to 46 do not apply to works covered by audited safety management systems
40	Safety checks of works
41	Structural loading on works
42	Requirements for earthing systems in works
43	Isolation fittings for works
44	High voltage conductors of overhead electric lines
45	Permanent notices on works
46	Keeping records and plans
	Works covered by audited safety management systems
47	Overview
48	What safety management systems must do
49	Substantive requirements of safety management systems
50	Documentation of safety management systems
51	Audit of safety management systems
52	Audit certificate for safety management systems
53	Statutory declaration by safety management system operator
54	Cancellation of audit certificate
55	Certification and declaration deemed to be compliance with section 61A of Act
56	Offences by accredited auditors
	Part 5 Safety of installations
	Domestic wiring exemption
57	Exemption for domestic electrical wiring work
	Certified designs for installations
58	Certified designs
	Rules for low and extra-low voltage installations
59	Low and extra-low voltage installations to comply with AS/NZS 3000
60	Certain installations must comply with Part 2 of AS/NZS 3000
61	Specific rules for installations under Part 1 of AS/NZS 3000
61AA	Installations in excavated areas must comply with AS/NZS 3007
61A	Rule about 3-pin flat-pin socket-outlets in low voltage installations
	Rules for high voltage installations
62	High voltage installations treated as if works
	Testing prescribed electrical work
63	Testing prescribed electrical work on low and extra-low voltage installations
64	Testing prescribed electrical work on high voltage installations
	Certifying prescribed electrical work
65	Requirement for certificate of compliance
66	Content of certificate of compliance
67	Information recorded on certificate of compliance
68	Who may issue certificate of compliance
69	Offences relating to certificates of compliance
	Inspecting prescribed electrical work
70	High-risk prescribed electrical work to be inspected
71	Who may carry out inspection
72	Record of inspection
72A	What happens to records of inspection
73	Offences relating to inspection
	Connection to power supply after prescribed electrical work
73A	Before connecting installations to power supply
73B	Offence relating to connection
	Reconnection when no general or high-risk prescribed electrical work done
74	Reconnecting or restoring power supply to certain low voltage installations
	Certifying installations
74A	Electrical safety certification
74B	Exception for operators with maintenance management systems
74C	Time when electrical safety certificate to be issued
74D	Offences relating to electrical safety certificates
	Record-keeping
74E	What happens to certificates of compliance
74F	Details of high-risk work to be lodged on database
74G	What happens to electrical safety certificates
74H	Offences relating to record-keeping
	Miscellaneous
74I	Location of installations
	Periodic assessments
75	Periodic assessments of certain installations
	Connectable installations
76	No supply without warrant of electrical fitness
77	Restrictions on use of connectable installations
78	Issue of warrants of electrical fitness for connectable installations
	Part 5A Mining electrical equipment and conductors
78A	Interpretation
	Alluvial mining operations and quarrying operations
78B	Obligations in relation to alluvial mining operations and quarrying operations
78C	Standards for equipment at alluvial mining operations and quarrying operations
78D	Periodic assessment of equipment and conductors at alluvial mining operations and quarrying operations
	Opencast mining operations
78E	Obligations in relation to opencast mining operations
78F	Standards for equipment at opencast mining operations
78G	Safety assessment programmes at opencast mining operations
	Tunnelling operations and underground mining operations
78H	Obligations in relation to tunnelling operations
78I	Obligations in relation to underground mining operations
78J	Certified designs for mining electrical equipment and conductors at tunnelling operations and underground mining operations
78K	Safety assessment programmes at tunnelling operations and underground mining operations
78L	General offences
	Tourist mining operations
78M	Obligations in relation to tourist mining operations
	Part 6 Safety of fittings and appliances
79	Maintenance of domestic appliances
80	New and used fittings and appliances to be electrically safe
81	Evidence of compliance with standards
82	Offences relating to false or incorrect marking
83	Supplier declaration of conformity required before sale of declared medium risk articles
83A	Deemed approval by WorkSafe for sale of medium risk EESS products
84	Declared high risk articles not to be sold unless approved
85	Approval by WorkSafe for sale of declared high risk articles
86	Deemed approval by WorkSafe for sale of declared high risk articles
86A	Deemed approval by WorkSafe for sale of high risk EESS products
87	Prohibitions relating to fittings and appliances
88	Supply of electricity to hand-held appliances
89	Use of hand-held appliances in certain high-risk situations
89A	Use of hand-held appliances in cramped spaces
	Testing appliances
90	Testing appliances after certain work done on them
	Periodic assessment of electrical medical devices
91	Periodic assessment of electrical medical devices
	Part 7 Registration, employer licences, and Board provisions
	What supervised persons and trainees may do
92	Limits of work that supervised persons may do
93	Limits of work that trainees may do
	Employer licences
94	Requirements for system of operation of holders of employer licences
95	Certification of system of operation
96	Approved persons
	Board provisions
97	Search criteria for register of electrical workers
98	Form of complaints
99	Fees payable to Board
	Part 8 Working practices
100	Safety responsibilities of person who carries out work
101	Responsibility of employers for safety of employees
102	Work on live high voltage overhead electric lines
103	Work on live conductors of low voltage overhead electric lines in installations
103A	Work on or near bare live conductors in alluvial mining operations, mining operations, and quarrying operations
104	Work on isolated high voltage fittings
105	Work stringing additional conductors between poles or other supports
106	Notices when working on works and installations
107	Offences relating to Part 8
	Part 9 Miscellaneous
	WorkSafe’s powers and obligations
108	WorkSafe’s power to prescribe forms, etc
109	WorkSafe’s power to exempt from requirements
110	Issuing urgent instructions, orders, or requirements
	Miscellaneous
111	Gazette notices to be published on Internet site
111A	Consolidation of certificates
111B	Authentication mark
111C	Offences relating to application of authentication mark
112	Details that must be provided in reports of accidents
	Recording certificate details
112A	Database for recording certificate details on Internet site
112B	Access to database
	Transitional provisions
113	Existing and in-process works, installations, fittings, and appliances
114	Declared articles under previous regulations
115	Specified fittings and appliances under previous regulations
116	Secretary’s exemptions
117	Warrants of electrical fitness
118	Certificates of compliance
	Transitional provision relating to 2011 amendments
118A	Transitional provision relating to Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2011
	Transitional provision relating to 2012 amendments
118B	Transitional provision relating to Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2012
	Transitional and savings provisions relating to 2013 amendments
118C	Savings provision for existing mining electrical equipment in relation to Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2013
118D	Transitional provision relating to Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2013
	Arbitrators
119	Arbitrators
	Revocation and amendments
120	Revocation of Electricity Regulations 1997
121	Amendment to Electricity (Hazards from Trees) Regulations 2003
122	Amendments to Electricity (China Free Trade Agreement) Regulations 2008
	Schedule 1 Prescribed electrical work
	Schedule 2 Electrical codes of practice and official standards cited in these regulations
	Schedule 3 Infringement notice and reminder notice
	Schedule 4 Standards applicable to fittings and appliances
	Schedule 5 Prescribed fees payable to WorkSafe
	Schedule 6 Prescribed fees payable to Board
	Schedule 7 Authentication mark
	Schedule 8 Rules for mining electrical equipment and conductors
	Gazette Information
	Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2012
	Notes

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