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Electricity Act 1992

Restrictions on electrical work - Exemptions

75: Board may exempt person or class of persons from section 74

You could also call this:

“The Board can give special permission to skip some rules for electrical work”

The Board can let some people or groups of people not follow section 74. This can be for all electrical work or just some types. The Board can add rules to this permission.

You can do electrical work without following section 74 if the Board says it’s okay. But you have to follow the Board’s rules, only do the work they said you could, and do it safely.

When the Board makes these special permissions, they have to tell everyone about it in a special way called secondary legislation.

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Part 9 Restrictions on electrical work
Exemptions

75Board may exempt person or class of persons from section 74

  1. The Board may, if it thinks fit, exempt any person or class of persons from compliance with section 74 generally or in relation to a particular type of prescribed electrical work.

  2. The Board may grant the exemption subject to any terms and conditions that it thinks fit.

  3. A person may do any prescribed electrical work, or assist in doing any prescribed electrical work, under an exemption granted under subsection (1) if—

  4. the work is within the limits specified in the exemption; and
    1. the exemption applies to the person; and
      1. the work is done in accordance with the terms and conditions of the exemption; and
        1. the work is carried out in a competent and safe manner.

          1. An exemption under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

          Notes
          • Section 75: substituted, on , by section 13 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
          • Section 75(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
          • Section 75(4): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
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