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July 2014
energysafe issue 36
Prosecutions and infringements
ESV has recently taken
legal proceedings against
the following individuals
and companies.
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In April Pump & Motor Controls Australia
Pty Ltd, a business located in Dandenong
South, was charged with employing
a person who was not an electrician
to carry out electrical installation work
and also permitting a person to carry
out electrical work that was not in
accordance with the Electricity Safety
Act and Regulations. Sale Magistrates’
Court fined the company $5000 plus
$500 costs without conviction.
Peter Slavuj of Narre Warren South, an
unlicensed officer of Pump & Motor
Controls company, appeared at Sale
Magistrates’ Court charged with three
offences including carrying out electrical
work when not licensed, installing unsafe
electrical equipment and installing electrical
cabling that did not meet the required
maximum fault loop impedance. Slavuj
was fined $1000 plus $500 costs without
conviction.
Andrew Workman, LEIW of Hampton Park,
appeared in Sale Magistrates’ Court
charged with installing unsafe electrical
equipment, carrying out work that did not
comply with the Electricity Safety Act and
Regulations, and aiding and abetting a
person to carry out electrical work when
that person was not licensed. Workman
was fined $1000 plus $500 costs without
conviction.
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In May Stephen Clarke, REC of Ringwood,
appeared before Ringwood Magistrates’
Court charged with two counts of installing
unsafe electrical equipment and one count
of failing to test. He was fined $2000
without conviction and ordered to pay
an additional $1500 in costs.
Sparkey Clarkey Pty Ltd, a business
located in Glen Iris, was charged in
Ringwood Magistrates’ Court with two
counts of permitting a person to carry out
electrical work not in accordance with the
Act and Regulations, and one count of
failing to have prescribed work inspected.
The business was fined $2000 without
conviction.
Infringement
notice
summary
Aug
13
Total 5
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In June Bruno Cuscuna, unlicensed of Diggers
Rest, appeared in the Broadmeadows
Magistrates’ Court charged with carrying out
electrical installation work when not licensed.
Cuscuna was also charged with employing a
person to carry out work when not registered
and employing an unlicensed person to carry
out electrical work. He was fined $2000 plus
$1300 costs without conviction.
In June Marc Taylor of Bentleigh, unlicensed,
appeared before Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court
charged with carrying out electrical installation
work when not licensed. He was released without
conviction on an undertaking to be of good
behaviour until 10 June 2015 and was ordered
to pay $1000 as a condition of the bond.
Sep
13
Oct
13
Nov
13
Dec
13
Jan
14
Feb
14
Mar
14
Apr
14
May
14
Jun
14
Total
2
5
6
4
6
0
11
5
0
6
50
2014
REC LEW
Other
Offence
code
Offence
Penalty
Apr 14
OTHER
6384
Supply equipment not approved
$2887
OTHER
6384
Supply equipment not approved
$2887
LEW
6210
Unregistered person offers to do work
$722
LEW
6242
Fails to give certificate within time
$144
LEW
6402
Person comes too close to aerial line
$289
OTHER
3583
Supply or sell unaccepted gas appliance
$2887
OTHER
3589
Gasfitting work did not comply
$2887
LEI
1504
Fails to notify defects
$289
LEI
1504
Fails to notify defects
$289
REC
Infringement
notices
2014
Types of
infringement
notices
issued
6232
Fail to have work inspected by inspector
$563
Jun 14
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