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Electricity Act 1992

Miscellaneous provisions - General electricity matters - Offences

163: Offence to employ person to engage in prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74

You could also call this:

“It's against the law to hire someone to do electrical work if they're not allowed to”

If you employ someone to do electrical work or help with electrical work, you need to make sure they are allowed to do it according to section 74. If you hire someone who isn’t allowed to do this work, you are breaking the law. This is called an offence.

If you break this law, you might have to pay a fine. If you are a person, the fine could be up to $10,000. If you are a company, the fine could be up to $25,000.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions
General electricity matters: Offences

163Offence to employ person to engage in prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74

  1. Every person who employs any person under a contract of service to do, or assist in doing, any prescribed electrical work in breach of section 74 commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 in the case of an individual, or $25,000 in the case of a body corporate.

Notes
  • Section 163: substituted, on , by section 22 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
  • Section 163: amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
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