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Electricity Act 1992

Powers and duties of electricity operators and other owners of electrical works

23D: Land owner may set reasonable conditions on line owner's entry

You could also call this:

“Landowners can make fair rules about electricity companies coming onto their property”

If you own or live on land where electricity lines or equipment are located, you can set reasonable rules about when and how the electricity company can enter your property. These rules can be about the timing of their visit and which way they should come in. However, there are some limits to what you can do:

You can’t make the electricity company wait more than 15 working days to enter.

You can’t ask for money or other rewards in exchange for letting them in.

Your rules can’t stop the electricity company from doing what they need to do on your property.

Remember, the electricity company has the right to enter your property to work on their equipment, but you also have the right to set some fair rules about how they do it.

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Part 3 Powers and duties of electricity operators and other owners of electrical works

23DLand owner may set reasonable conditions on line owner's entry

  1. The owner or occupier of the land may set reasonable conditions relating to the timing of entry under section 23 and the access route, but those conditions may not—

  2. delay the entry by more than 15 working days; or
    1. require monetary or other consideration; or
      1. otherwise defeat the ability of the owner of the works to exercise effectively the powers in section 23.

        Notes
        • Section 23D: inserted, on , by section 11(1) of the Electricity Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 40).