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(d) 2015/2016 Financial Year;

(2) Electrical switchboards installed in properties purchased or constructed by the Public Housing Renewal Taskforce are compliant with Australian Standards.

(3) Electrical switchboards are brought up to the latest Australian standards when buildings that are purchased by the Public Housing Renewal Taskforce are refurbished.

(4) Housing ACT is responsible for ongoing maintenance of properties constructed and purchased by the Public Housing Renewal Taskforce

(5) Housing ACT is responsible for ongoing maintenance of properties constructed and purchased by the Public Housing Renewal Taskforce.

(6) Housing ACT is responsible for ongoing maintenance of properties constructed and purchased by the Public Housing Renewal Taskforce.

(7) The contents of the ACT’s Critical Infrastructure Register are classified and I am therefore unable to release this information publicly.

EDUCATION DIRECTORATE

The ACT Governments owned buildings and facilities are managed either by the ACT Property Group which is a business unit in the Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate (CMTEDD) or, in certain cases, by individual Directorates. As such, this response is grouped by ACT Directorate with the following response provided by Education Directorate for those assets under their custodianship.

(1) The day to day management of school facilities is the responsibility of each school principal. Issues associated with faults in electrical switchboards are therefore dealt with by schools as part of their School Operational Allocation funding and only major faults that require Directorate assistance to rectify would be reported. Minor faults would be dealt with by schools in general and the Directorate does not collect this information centrally.

(2) Yes. The switchboards in buildings under the control of the Education Directorate were compliant at the time of installation. All new switchboards fall under two categories;

(a) Those that are an off the shelf type for smaller installations and sub-boards. These are usually bought from electrical wholesalers or manufacturing firms. All such boards are built to the Australian Standard AS/NZS 3439.1:2002; and

(b) Larger main switchboards for commercial & industrial installations. These boards are custom built for the various tasks of delivering power to other sub-switchboards throughout a facility. These boards are manufactured by a licensed switchboard maker. In this case they will be built to the Australian Standard and an electrical engineer’s specifications. Extensive testing of the

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