ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SPECIAL AREAS) REGULATIONS

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SPECIAL AREAS) REGULATIONS

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SPECIAL AREAS) REGULATIONS

(Cap. 103, section 3A)

[30th July, 1976.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply (Special
Areas) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
'company' means any person or any body of persons corporate or
unincorporate by whom electricity is supplied to a special area;

'company's installation' means any of a company's plant, equipment,
apparatus, fittings or appliances used for the purposes of
generating, transmitting, distributing or supplying electricity to a
special area;

'consumer' means a person who has registered with a company for the
supply of electricity by the company within a special area;

'consumer's installation' means any consumer's wires and fixed
electrical equipment and apparatus connected to the consumer's
wires;

'consumer's wires' means any electric lines which are connected to the
service lines of a company at the company's meter terminals;

'special area' means a special area designated under section 3A of the
Ordinance.

3. These regulations shall apply to and in respect of special areas.

4. (1) A company shall be responsible for ensuring that the
company's installation is maintained in a safe condition and in all
respects fit for supplying electricity.

(2) Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be guilty
of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of
$2,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further
penalty of $100 for each day during which the offence continues.

5. (1) A consumer shall be responsible for ensuring that the
consumer's installation belonging to him or used by him or under his
control is maintained in a safe condition and in all respects fit for
supplying electricity.

(2) Any person who contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment
for 3 months and a fine of $2,000 and, in the case of a continuing
offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each day during which the
offence continues.





6. (1) In delivering a supply of electricity to a company's
meter terminals, the company shall exercise all due precautions so
as to avoid risk of causing fire within the special area.

(2) Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine of $2,000.

7. (1) When taking a supply of electricity from a company's
meter terminals, the consumer shall exercise all due precautions so
as to avoid risk of causing fire within the special area.

(2) Any person who contravenes this regulation shall be guilty
of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprison-
ment for 3 months and a fine of $2,000.

8. (1) At the time of installation by a company, line con-
ductors shall, as far as is practicable in the circumstances, be rendered
inaccessible from any building or other place without the use of a
ladder or other special appliance.

(2) Where it is not practicable in the circumstances for a com-
pany to render line conductors inaccessible as provided for in
paragraph (1), the company shall insulate such line conductors.

(3) Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine of $2,000.

9. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), every consumer shall insert
a suitable safety fuse, or other automatic circuit-breaker of adequate
rupturing capacity, contained within a suitable receptacle of fire
resistant construction-
(a)in the consumer's wires in his premises as near to the point
of entry as is practicable; and
(b)where the company's meters are not attached to the con-
sumer's premises, in his consumer's wires at the company's
meter terminals.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), no fuse shall be inserted in
the neutral conductor of any alternating current system supplying
electricity to a consumer's premises.

(3) Any person who contravenes this regulation shall be guilty
of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprison-
ment for 3 months and a fine of $2,000.

10. (1) A company shall not commence to supply electricity
to a consumer's wires until it has inspected the consumer's installa-
tion and is satisfied that these regulations have been complied with
and that the connection of supply would not cause an undue leakage
or a danger of shock or fire.





(2) If during an inspection under paragraph (1) any part of a
consumer's installation is found to be defective or otherwise in breach
of these regulations, the company shall serve upon the consumer a
notice requiring him to remedy such defect or breach, as the case may
be, within such reasonable time as the company shall specify in the
notice.

(3) If a consumer fails to comply with a notice served under
paragraph (2) the company shall decline to supply electricity to the
premises concemed and shall not connect the supply until the defect
or breach has been remedied and any reasonable charge for retesting
has been paid to it by the consumer.

(4) A notice under paragraph (2) shall be sufficiently served if
sent by post to the consumer's premises or left at such premises.

(5) Any company which contravenes paragraph (1) or (3) shall
be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine of $2,000.

11. Any person who, without having first obtained approval
from the company, connects or authorizes or permits the connection
of any consumer's installation to the company's mains, or makes or
authorizes or permits the making of any addition or extension to any
consumer's installation which has not been approved by the company
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary convic-
tion to imprisonment for 3 months and a fine of $2,000 and, in the
case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each
day during which the offence continues.

12. Any person, other than an employee of the company, who
interferes with a company's seals at the company's meter terminals
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary convic-
tion to imprison-ment for 3 months and a fine of $2,000.

13. The Electricity Supply Regulations, with the exception of
regulations 13(4) and 25 to 34, shall apply to and in respect of special
areas.
L.N. 181/76. Citation. Interpretation. Application. Responsibility of company for company's installation. Responsibility of consumer for consumer's installation. Fire risks and company's responsibility. Fire risks and consumer's responsibility. Inaccessibility of line conductors. Main fuses or circuit-breakers. Initial inspection of consumer's installation before supply commences. Penalty for unauthorized consumer's connections and additions. Penalty for interference with company's seals. Application of Electricity Supply Regulations. (Cap. 103, sub. leg.)

L.N. 181/76. Citation. Interpretation. Application. Responsibility of company for company's installation. Responsibility of consumer for consumer's installation. Fire risks and company's responsibility. Fire risks and consumer's responsibility. Inaccessibility of line conductors. Main fuses or circuit-breakers. Initial inspection of consumer's installation before supply commences. Penalty for unauthorized consumer's connections and additions. Penalty for interference with company's seals. Application of Electricity Supply Regulations. (Cap. 103, sub. leg.)

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