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(b) Carry out or cause to be carried out such alterations or repairs as may be necessary to bring the electric lines into conformity with the requirements of the regulations, and the cost of such work shall be recoverable from the licensee as a debt due to the Crown.

222. For the purpose of facilitating any inspection the licensee shall—
     (a) Provide any necessary transport for the Inspecting Engineer within the area to which the license relates.
     (b) Lend to the Inspecting Engineer necessary available instruments required by him for the purpose of making any test.
     (c) Render every reasonable assistance to the Inspecting Engineer.
     (d) Arrange for an officer to accompany the Inspecting Engineer when necessary.

223. (1) Fees in respect of any such inspection by the Inspecting Engineer shall be paid by the licensee as follows:—
     (a) For any installation up to and including 100 kilowatts installed capacity .. .. 2 2 0
     (b) For any installation over 100 kilowatts and not exceeding 500 kilowatts .. .. 3 3 0
     (c) For any installation over 500 kilowatts and not exceeding 1,000 kilowatts .. .. 4 4 0
     (d) For any installation over 1,000 kilowatts .. .. 5 5 0
     (e) Maintenance and extensions to plant or lines, per inspection .. .. .. 2 2 0
     (f) Any inspection exceeding two days, extra fee per day .. .. .. 1 1 0
     (2) For the purposes of this regulation an extension to lines means any new line erected in a portion of the district already inspected.

COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS.

224. For the purpose of ascertaining whether these regulations are being faithfully complied with by the licensee, the Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department or any person authorized by him in writing in that behalf, may at all reasonable times enter on the lands and works used by or in the occupation of the licensee.

CONSTRUCTION OR APPARATUS NOT SPECIALLY PROVIDED FOR.

225. The Minister may from time to time by notice in the Gazette approve methods or types of construction, apparatus, or materials not specially provided for in these regulations, and impose such conditions as he deems necessary with respect to the use thereof.

PART III.—Regulations providing for the Removal or Alteration of any Dangerous Line or Apparatus erected prior to the coming into force of these Regulations (whether erected pursuant to a License under the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, or any other Act, or not) at the Expense in each case of the Owner of the Line or Apparatus:—

DANGEROUS LINES.

226. The following electric lines erected before the coming into force of these regulations shall be deemed to be dangerous lines for the purpose of Regulation 228 hereof:—
     (a) Any electric line not having the minimum clearance above ground-level prescribed with respect to such line by Regulations 113 to 117 hereof, if the Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department considers that the existing clearance is not sufficient to ensure safety, and such clearance is not altered to such height as he prescribes:
     (b) Any electric line which does not comply with the requirements of Regulations 118 to 131 hereof.
     (c) Any line normally accessible to any person from any building or part of a building, or from any post, fence, or bank:
     (d) Any line which, owing to defective binders, insulators, cross-arms, supports, or poles, is insecurely supported:
     (e) Any line which, owing to deterioration or removal of or damage to any protective covering or insulator, is not sufficiently protected or insulated:
     (f) Any line which does not comply with the requirements of these regulations as to mechanical strength:
     (g) Any neutral conductor of a three-phase system, and any intermediate wire of a three-wire system which is normally earthed and has at any point along its length a resistance to earth of more than 25 ohms:
     (h) Any line pulled up with too great a tension:
     (i) Any earthing-lead which is not actually connected to earth or which, being connected to earth, has a resistance to earth of more than 25 ohms:
     (j) Any high pressure line erected on a pole carrying telegraph-wires and not supported on a cross-arm marked with distinctive red marking.
     (k) Any overhead or underground circuit supplied from an unattended generating-station or substation which, in the opinion of the Inspecting Engineer, is not satisfactorily provided with means for immediately interrupting the circuit or automatically and immediately earthing the faulty conductor in the event of any line forming part of the circuit becoming earthed:
     (l) Any overhead or underground circuit supplied from a continuously attended generating-station or substation which, in the opinion of the Inspecting Engineer, is not satisfactorily provided with the means mentioned in the last preceding paragraph or equipped with a visual and audible signal to indicate a leakage to earth:
     (m) Any high or extra-high pressure star-connected system with the neutral point earthed which at any time after the expiration of two years from the coming into force of these regulations is not equipped with earth leakage relays as required by Regulation 37 hereof:
     (n) Any service-line run on bobbin or similar insulators attached to the exterior of a building.

DANGEROUS APPARATUS.

227. The following electrical apparatus installed before the coming into force of these regulations shall be deemed to be dangerous apparatus for the purpose of the next succeeding regulation.
     (a) Every switchboard which does not comply with the requirements of Regulations 58 to 65 hereof unless such steps as the Chief Electrical Engineer of the Public Works Department directs are taken to render it reasonably safe:
     (b) Any door of an unattended power-house or substation which does not comply with the requirements of Regulation 67 hereof.
     (c) Any high pressure or extra-high pressure transformer accessible to any unauthorized person:
     (d) Any enclosed switch or circuit-breaker which has no external device to indicate clearly whether it is opened or closed:
     (e) Any unearthed metal work (except handrails of pole substations) which is not normally connected to a circuit and which may become alive.

DANGEROUS LINES AND APPARATUS TO BE MADE SAFE.

228. On receipt of a written notice from the Minister to the effect that any line or apparatus is dangerous, the licensee or other proprietor of such line or apparatus shall immediately take steps to render it safe and make it comply with these regulations. If the licensee or proprietor fails to do so within ten days after the receipt by him of such notice the dangerous line or apparatus may be removed or altered, as the Minister may direct, at the expense of the owner of such line, and the cost of such removal or alteration shall constitute a debt due to the Crown.

PART IV.—Penalties for Breaches of Licenses and Regulations.

229. (1) If any licensee—
     (a) Fails to use and maintain the works constructed pursuant to his license in such a manner as to secure to the area of supply the full benefit of the undertaking; or
     (b) Fails to observe, perform, fulfil, or keep any of the requirements, conditions, and provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and its amendments, with respect to his license; or
     (c) Fails to observe any of the requirements of these regulations,
     he commits an offence against these regulations and is liable for each such offence to a fine of £20.
     (2) Where the Governor-General is of opinion that any offence by a licensee, as aforesaid, is sufficiently serious to warrant the revocation of the license, he may direct that a notice specifying such offence, and requiring the licensee to take such steps as may be necessary to prevent a continuance of the offence, be served upon the licensee, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such service the Governor-General is satisfied that such steps have not been taken he may revoke the license.
     (3) Where a license is revoked as aforesaid the licensee shall not be liable to prosecution for the offence in respect of which the license is so revoked.
     (4) The infliction of any penalty, whether by way of fine or revocation as aforesaid, shall not relieve the licensee from any liability to pay compensation in respect of damage arising out of the commission of the offence in respect of which such penalty is inflicted.

230. Every person, other than a licensee, who commits a breach of any of these regulations or who, without lawful authority, tampers with any electric lines or electrical apparatus subject to these regulations commits an offence and is liable to a fine of £20,

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