# The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002, Regulation 19: Precautions against access and warnings of dangers


(1) Every support carrying a high voltage overhead line shall, if the circumstances reasonably require, be fitted with devices to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, any unauthorised person from reaching a position at which any such line would be a source of danger.
(2) Every support carrying a high voltage overhead line, and every support carrying a low voltage overhead line incorporating bare phase conductors, shall have attached to it sufficient safety signs complying with Schedule 1 of such size and placed in such positions as are necessary to give due warning of such danger as is reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2665/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-safety-quality-and-continuity-regulations-2002/regulation-19
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