AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ELECTRICITY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 23 of 1985

The Electricity (Amendment) ordinance 1985 has, among other things, inserted a provision in the Electricity Ordinance 1971, section 32M, which requires the ‘approved first seller’ of electrical equipment to ensure that, where a declaration has been registered under the Ordinance certifying that an article complies with the safety standards, the article shall be marked to show the fact, in the manner which is ‘prescribed’ by the Minister for Territories.

2.	The Electricity Regulations (Amendment) inserts a regulation 8, which makes section 32M effective by requiring that the article should be marked by ‘affixing the registration number of the declaration to, or writing that number indelibly on, the article’.

3.	Part VII of the Ordinance, which includes section 32M, came into operation on 30 June 1985.  Its system of controls, including section 32M, does not apply to articles of equipment which are of a class covered by the New South Wales system of safety regulation on that date.