Electricity Act 1992

Miscellaneous provisions - General electricity matters - Regulations—General

169B: Miscellaneous provisions relating to regulations that prescribe requirements for safety management systems

You could also call this:

“Rules for staying safe when working with electricity”

When you have to follow safety rules in a system, you only need to deal with dangers that you know about or should reasonably know about. You don’t have to worry about things you couldn’t possibly know.

The government can make different rules for different types of companies that make or distribute electricity. These rules are about how these companies should manage safety.

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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions
General electricity matters: Regulations—General

169BMiscellaneous provisions relating to regulations that prescribe requirements for safety management systems

  1. To avoid doubt, a person required by a safety management system to eliminate, isolate, or minimise hazards so far as is reasonably practicable is required to take action only in respect of circumstances that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, about.

  2. Different requirements may be prescribed under section 169(1)(3A) in respect of different classes of electricity generators or electricity distributors.

Notes
  • Section 169B: inserted, on , by section 27 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).
  • Section 169B(1): replaced, on , by section 232 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (2015 No 70).