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About the Bill 

On 28 October 2025 the Hon Jarrod Bleijie MP, Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations, introduced the Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the State Development, Infrastructure and Works Committee for detailed consideration.   

View: Explanatory speech 
View: Bill
View: Explanatory Notes
View: Statement of compatibility

The Bill amends the Electrical Safety Act 2002 (ES Act) and the Electrical Safety Regulation 2014 (ES Regulation) to:

• confirm that electricity entities can continue to give electrical equipment defect notices, by providing a clearly defined and limited power to prescribe this ability under the ES Regulation
• empower the regulator (Electrical Safety Office) to give unsafe equipment directions to prohibit the sale, installation and use of unsafe electrical equipment under the ES Act, by elevating the regulator’s existing prohibition power for unsafe electrical equipment from the ES Regulation to the ES Act
• clarify the operation of unsafe equipment directions.

The Bill also amends the Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 to omit a provision which would have been introduced into the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. The amendment to omit the provision removes an additional avenue for health and safety representatives and WHS entry permit holders to request information contained in improvement, prohibition and non-disturbance notices from the regulator (Workplace Health and Safety Queensland). The Bill also makes other consequential amendments to give effect to the removal of this provision.

Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice are available under the Related Publications tab.

Call for submissions

The committee invites submissions on any aspect of the Bill, from all interested parties. Guidelines for making a submission to a parliamentary committee are available here: Guide to making a submission. Please ensure your submission meets these requirements.

Click here to make an online submission to the inquiry into the Bill.

If you are unable to provide a written submission, please contact the secretariat to discuss other options.

The closing date for written submissions is Friday 14 November 2025 at 10am.

Submissions must include:

• the author’s full name
• if the submission is made on behalf of an organisation, the level of approval (e.g. a local branch, executive committee or national organisation), and
• at least two of the following:
• email address
• mailing address, and
• daytime telephone number.

Please ensure your submission includes the above or it may not be considered by the committee.

Please note: Your name and submission may be published on the committee’s inquiry webpage, which will mean it can be viewed on the internet. You can request for your name to be withheld from your published submission, or for both your name and your submission to be kept confidential (i.e. not published). Decisions about whether and how submissions are published are at the discretion of the committee.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee has scheduled a public briefing on the Bill from officers of the Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning on Thursday 6 November 2025 and a public hearing on Friday 21 November 2025.  See timeline below for further information.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on Friday 19 December 2025. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline