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between any one conductor and earth greater than 375 vols but not exceeding 15,000 volts; or

(ii) a declared voltage between conductors or between any one conductor and earth exceeding 15,000 volts;

(f) squipment, other than equipment in any of the aforementioned

classes, that is not connected to a distribution system;

(g) equipment, other than equipment in any of the aforementioned classes, that is designed for connexion at its terminals to a distribution system having-

(1) a declared voltage between conductors not greater than 750 volts or a declared voltage between any one conductor and earth not greater than 375 volts; or

(i)) a declared voltage between conductors greater this 750 volts but not exceeding 15,000 volts or a declared voltage between any one conductor and earth greater than 375 volts but not exceeding 15,000 volts; or

(iii) a declared voltage between conductors or between anj one conductor and earth exceeding 15,000 volts.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, "distribution system" means any system for conveying electrical energy from one place to another.

(3) (a) Any apparatus in an aircraft or a foreign vessel shall, fec the purposes of regulation 4, be deemed not to be within any of the classes specified in parapraph (1), and references in these regulations to the ignition apparatus of an intemal combustion engine shall not be construed as referring to the ignition apparatus of an internal combustion engine lo an aircraft or foreign vessel.

(6) For the purposes of regulation 3 any apparatus (other than

ignition apparatus of an internal combustion engine) designed to be used exclusively in a vessel or aircraft and to obtain its power solely therefrom, and for the purposes of regulatios 4 any apparatus (other than the ignition apparatus of internal combustion engine) used in a vessel or aircraft and obtaining its power solely therefrom, shall be deemed not la be within any of the classes specified in paragraph (1).

3. (1) The requirement referred to in regulation 7 shall b complied with in the case of every apparatus to which these regulations apply (whether manufactured, assembled or imported before or after the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette) Ü.

after the expiry of a period of six months from the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette, that apparatus is to be sold otherwise than for export, or offered or advertised for sale otherwise than for export, or let on hire or offered or advertised for letting on hire, or installed. by any person, whether on his own account or as agent of some other person, who in the Colony or whose principal in the Colony in the course of business manufactured or assembled the apparatus or who on his own account or as agent in the course of business imported the apparatus into the Colony or whose principal in the course of business imported the apparatus into the Colony.

(2) Any person, whether on his own account or as agent of some olher person, who, after the expiry of a period of six months from the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazerre-

(a) sells otherwise than for export or offers or advertises for sale

otherwise than for export: or

(5) lets on hire or offers or advertises for letting on hire; or

(c) installs,

any apparatus to which these regulations apply (whether manufactured, | assembled or imported before or after the day on which these regula- tions are published in the Gazette), being an apparatus which was manufactured or assembled by him or his principal, as the case may be, in the Colony in the course of business or imported into the Colony by him, whether on his own account or as agent of some other person, or by his principal, in the course of business, shall, if such apparatus does not comply with the requirement referred to in regulation 7 when so sold, offered or advertised for sale, let on hire, offered or advertised for letting on hire, or installed, as the case may be, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction, in the case of the first such offence, to a fine of seven hundred and fifty dollars and, in the case of any subsequent such offence, to a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars; and where such person is the agent of some other person, such other person shall be under the same liability as if he had himself sold or offered or advertised for sale, or let on hire or offered or advertised for letting on hire, or installed, that apparatus, as the case may be.

4. (3) The requirement referred to in regulation 7 shall be Users. complied with in the case of every apparatus to which these regulations apply, whether manufactured, assembled, installed, imported, purchased. hired or otherwise obtained before or after the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette, if such apparatus is to be used in the Colony: