New Powers to Ban Unsafe Electrical Equipment and New Defect Notice Requirements
Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
Topics
consumer protection electrical equipment equipment defects product safety workplace health and safety
Introduced by: The Hon Jarrod Bleijie MP (LNP)
Links to official parliament websites
Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The regulator can ban the sale, installation or use of unsafe electrical equipment.
The regulator must publish these bans on its website.
The regulator must notify known sellers of the banned equipment.
People must follow these bans or face fines of up to 40 penalty units (2026: $6,908).
The regulator cannot delegate the power to issue these bans to others.
Electricity entities can now issue notices about defective electrical equipment.
Past defect notices issued by electricity entities are now legally valid.
Health and safety representatives can no longer request certain notice information from the regulator.