Electricity Supply (Special Areas) Regulations
[30 July 1976]
(Format changes—E.R. 6 of 2021)
These regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply (Special Areas) Regulations.
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
company (公司) means any person or any body of persons corporate or unincorporate by whom electricity is supplied to a special area; company’s installation (公司裝置) 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 (用戶) means a person who has registered with a company for the supply of electricity by the company within a special area; consumer’s installation (用戶裝置) means any consumer’s wires and fixed electrical equipment and apparatus connected to the consumer’s wires; consumer’s wires (用戶電線) means any electric lines which are connected to the service lines of a company at the company’s meter terminals; electricity (電力) means electricity, electric current or any like agency; (L.N. 216 of 1990) special area (特別地區) means a special area designated under section 59(2) of the Ordinance. (L.N. 216 of 1990)These regulations shall apply to and in respect of special areas.
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.
Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each day during which the offence continues. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
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.
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 at level 1 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each day during which the offence continues. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
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.
Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
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.
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 at level 1. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
At the time of installation by a company, line conductors 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.
Where it is not practicable in the circumstances for a company to render line conductors inaccessible as provided for in paragraph (1), the company shall insulate such line conductors.
Any company which contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
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—
in the consumer’s wires in his premises as near to the point of entry as is practicable; and
where the company’s meters are not attached to the consumer’s premises, in his consumer’s wires at the company’s meter terminals.
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), no fuse shall be inserted in the neutral conductor of any alternating current system supplying electricity to a consumer’s premises.
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 at level 1. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
A company shall not commence to supply electricity to a consumer’s wires until it has inspected the consumer’s installation 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.
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.
If a consumer fails to comply with a notice served under paragraph (2) the company shall decline to supply electricity to the premises concerned 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.
A notice under paragraph (2) shall be sufficiently served if sent by post to the consumer’s premises or left at such premises.
Any company which contravenes paragraph (1) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine at level 1. (E.R. 6 of 2021)
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 conviction to imprisonment for 3 months and a fine at level 1 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of $100 for each day during which the offence continues.
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 conviction to imprisonment for 3 months and a fine at level 1.
The Electricity Supply Regulations (Cap. 406 sub. leg. A), with the exception of regulations 13(4) and 25 to 29, shall apply to and in respect of special areas.