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Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 19, 58th Parliament - Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 on 19 December 2025. The report will be debated in the Legislative Assembly in due course.

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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.   

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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.

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