The Electricity Supply Regulations 1988

means any plant, equipment, apparatus and appliances used for the purposes of generating, transmitting and distributing energy, and electric lines, fittings, apparatus and appliances designed for use by consumers of energy for lighting, heating, motive power and other purposes for which energy can be used;

means a conductor providing equipotential bonding;

means a conductor used for protection against electric shock which connects the exposed conductive parts of apparatus with earth but does not include any conductor which is used as a neutral conductor;

means an electrical conductor arranged to be electrically connected to a system but does not include conductors used or intended to be used solely for the purposes of control or regulation of supply or for communication;

means connected with earth in such manner as will at all times provide a rapid and safe discharge of energy, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

means any person supplied or entitled to be supplied by a supplier but shall not include— (a) an Electricity Board (other than in regulation 32);

includes danger to health or danger to life or limb from shock, burn, injury or mechanical movement to persons, livestock or domestic animals, or from fire attendant upon the generation, transformation, supply or use of energy;

means any electric line through which energy may be supplied or is intended to be supplied by a supplier directly to only one consumer or indirectly to more than one consumer but does not include a service line;

means the general mass of the earth;

means a conductor or group of conductors in intimate contact with and providing a connection with earth;

means a terminal directly connected to the supply neutral conductor at the supplier’s fusible cut-out, or automatic switching device nearest to the supply terminals;

means a wire, conductor, or other means used or intended to be used for the purpose of conveying, transmitting or distributing energy (including to earth) and any casing, coating, covering, tube, pipe, or insulator enclosing, surrounding, or supporting that line, or any part thereof, and for the purposes of regulations 12 to 16 (inclusive) includes any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of conveying, transmitting or distributing energy;

means an Area Board as defined in the Electricity Act 1947, the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board or the South of Scotland Electricity Board or the Central Electricity Generating Board;

means electrical energy;

means those parts of any premises which are principally used for the purposes of generating energy;

means any voltage exceeding low voltage;

means the 15th edition of the Regulations for Electrical Installations published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers with amendments published on 1st January 1983, 1st May 1984, 1st January 1985, 1st January 1986 and 12th June 1987;

means non-conducting material enclosing, surrounding or supporting a conductor or any part thereof and of such quality and thickness as to be suitable for the purposes of the regulation in which the term is used, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

means another owner with whose electric lines the electric lines of an owner are, or may be, directly connected;

means— (a) in relation to alternating current, a voltage exceeding 50 volts but not exceeding 1000 volts, in each case measured between the phase conductors taking the square root of the mean of the squares of the instantaneous values of a voltage during a complete cycle;

means a conductor which is, or is intended to be, connected to the neutral point of a system and intended to contribute to the transmission of energy;

means any electric line which is placed above ground and in the open air;

means a conductor of a system for the transmission of energy other than a neutral conductor or conductor used for earthing purposes;

means the point at which the electric lines of two or more owners are connected.

means the surface area of ground around an earth electrode on which a significant voltage gradient may exist;

means a sign having the symbol and text and of the design, colours and proportions specified in Schedule 1;

means an electric line through which energy may be supplied by a supplier from a distributing main but does not include a line directly from the premises of the supplier;

means any premises or enclosed part thereof which contain apparatus for either transforming or converting energy to or from high voltage (other than transforming or converting solely for the operation of switching devices or instruments) or for switching, controlling or regulating the energy at high voltage and which are large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the apparatus is in position, and includes the apparatus therein;

means a person who supplies, and, where electric lines and apparatus used for that purpose are owned otherwise than by the person generating the supply, shall include the owner of those electric lines and apparatus;

means supply with or of energy to premises other than those on which it was generated, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

means the neutral conductor of a low voltage system which is or is intended to be connected with earth, but does not include any part of the neutral conductor on the consumer’s side of the supply terminals;

means the ends of the electric lines situated upon any consumer’s premises at which the supply is delivered and, unless otherwise agreed in writing, where a meter is employed to register the value of the supply and is directly connected to those lines, means the terminals of that meter furthest from the installation of the owner of that meter;

includes stays and struts, but does not include insulators, their fittings or any building or structure the principal purpose of which is not the support of electric lines or apparatus;

includes any device which can either make or break a current, or both;

means an individual electrical system in which all the conductors and apparatus are electrically connected to one or more sources of voltage, and includes all those conductors and apparatus.

means the person who owns or controls any electric line through which energy may be provided;