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Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS Regulator) Delegation 2025

I, Daniel Croucher, GEMS Regulator, make the following delegations.

Dated  30 May 2025  

Daniel Croucher

GEMS Regulator

 

 

 

Part 1 — Preliminary

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

Part 2 — Delegations

5  Delegations relating to functions and powers under the Act

6  Period of delegation

Part 3 — Interaction with other instruments made under the Act

7  Delegation taken to be subsequent

Schedule 1 

 

  This instrument is the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards (GEMS Regulator) Delegation 2025.

  This instrument commences on 20 September 2022.

Note: Subsection 12(1A) of the Legislation Act 2003 provides that a legislative instrument or notifiable instrument may provide that the instrument, or a provision of the instrument, commences before the instrument is registered. Upon registration of this instrument as a notifiable instrument, this instrument would be a notifiable instrument (see paragraph 11(2)(c) of the Legislation Act 2003).

  This instrument is made under section 80 of the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012.

  In this instrument:

Act means the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012.

Delegation period – see section 6.

 

  Under section 80 of the Act, and with the agreement of the State of Victoria, the functions and powers listed in each item of the table in Schedule 1 are delegated to the employees of Energy Safe Victoria who occupied or performed the duties of the positions specified therein during the delegation period.

  The delegations referred to in section 5 of this instrument apply for the period 20 September 2022 to 17 September 2024 (the delegation period).

 

  This instrument is to be taken as a subsequent delegation for the purposes of interpreting the application of any revocation clause contained in any previous delegation instrument made under section 80 of the Act.


  Note: see Part 2
 

 Item

Statutory provision of the Act

Power/Function 

Delegates 

1.        

 

Subsections 43(1), 43(2), 43(3), and 43(4)

Power to register a product model in accordance with subsection 43(1), or to refuse to register a product model in accordance with subsections 43(2), 43(3) or 43(4).

 

  1.        General Manager, Electrical Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  2.        Head of Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  3.        Senior Engineer, Standardisation and Certification, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  4.        Energy Efficiency Officer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  5.        Safety and Energy Efficiency Engineer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  6.        General Manager, Gas and Pipeline Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  7.        Manager, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  8.        Senior Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  9.        Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  10.     Electrical Equipment Certification Manager
  11.     Gas Equipment Safety Manager
  12.     Senior Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  13.     Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  14.     Energy Efficiency Officer Renewable Energy Safety

 

2.        

Subsection 45(1)

Power to impose conditions on a product model’s registration in accordance with section 45(1).

  1.        General Manager, Electrical Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  2.        Head of Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  3.        Senior Engineer, Standardisation and Certification, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  4.        Energy Efficiency Officer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  5.        Safety and Energy Efficiency Engineer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  6.        General Manager, Gas and Pipeline Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  7.        Manager, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  8.        Senior Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  9.        Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  10.     Electrical Equipment Certification Manager
  11.     Gas Equipment Safety Manager
  12.     Senior Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  13.     Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  14.     Energy Efficiency Officer Renewable Energy Safety

 

3.        

Subsections 46(2), 46(3) and 46(4)

Power to vary a product model’s registration to cover one or more additional models in accordance with subsection 46(2), or to refuse to vary a product model’s registration to cover one or more additional models in accordance with subsections 46(3) or 46(4).

  1.        General Manager, Electrical Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  2.        Head of Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  3.        Senior Engineer, Standardisation and Certification, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  4.        Energy Efficiency Officer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  5.        Safety and Energy Efficiency Engineer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  6.        General Manager, Gas and Pipeline Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  7.        Manager, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  8.        Senior Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  9.        Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  10.     Electrical Equipment Certification Manager
  11.     Gas Equipment Safety Manager
  12.     Senior Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  13.     Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  14.     Energy Efficiency Officer Renewable Energy Safety

 

4.        

Subsections 65(1), 65(2), 65(3)

Power to request further specified documentation or information from applicants by written notice, including test reports and to require that documentation or information be verified by statutory declaration.

  1.        General Manager, Electrical Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  2.        Head of Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  3.        Senior Engineer, Standardisation and Certification, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  4.        Energy Efficiency Officer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  5.        Safety and Energy Efficiency Engineer, Electrical Equipment Safety and Efficiency, Energy Safe Victoria
  6.        General Manager, Gas and Pipeline Safety and Technical Regulation, Energy Safe Victoria
  7.        Manager, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  8.        Senior Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  9.        Gas Engineer, Type A Gas Appliance and Component Safety, Energy Safe Victoria
  10.     Electrical Equipment Certification Manager
  11.     Gas Equipment Safety Manager
  12.     Senior Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  13.     Engineer (Gas) Gas Installation and Equipment Safety
  14.     Energy Efficiency Officer Renewable Energy Safety