ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ACT

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to seek the sound development of electrical construction business and secure the safe and appropriate execution of electrical construction by prescribing basic matters concerning electrical construction business and the execution, technical management of and contracting for electrical construction.

[This Article Wholly Amended on Dec. 26, 2008]

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on May 21, 2009; Jul. 25, 2011; Mar. 23, 2013; Dec. 23, 2013; Apr. 20, 2021; Feb. 6, 2024>

1. The term "electrical construction" means any work of installing, maintaining, repairing, or dismantling equipment falling under any of the following items, and any work incidental thereto which are prescribed by Presidential Decree:

(a) Electric installations under subparagraph 16 of Article 2 of the Electric Utility Act;

(b) Electric instrumentation for using electric power at places using power;

(d) Facilities to generate electricity, among new and renewable energy facilities under subparagraph 3 of Article 2 of the Act on the Promotion of the Development, Use and Diffusion of New and Renewable Energy;

(e) Electrical facilities, among smart grids under subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Act on the Creation and Facilitation of Use of Smart Grids;

2. The term "construction business" means engaging in an electrical construction business as a business, regardless of the title thereof, such as a contract or any others;

3. The term "constructor" means a person who has registered a construction business pursuant to Article 4 (1);

4. The term "client" means a person who has awarded a contract for electrical construction to a constructor; provided, a contractor who subcontracts a contracted electrical construction is excluded;

5. The term "contract" means a contract under which, regardless of title, such as prime contract, subcontract, consignment and others, either of the parties agrees to perform an electrical construction and the other party agrees to pay consideration for the completion of the work;

ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ACT

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 3(Restrictions on electrical construction) #

Article 4(Registration of construction business) #

Article 5(Grounds for disqualification) #

Article 6(Continued construction after subject to disposition of business suspension) #

Article 7(Transfer of construction business) #

Article 8(Restrictions on transfer of construction business) #

Article 9(Reporting on modification in registered matters) #

Article 10(Ban on lending certificates of registration of construction business) #

Article 11(Separate orders for electrical construction and electrical construction management at risk) #

Article 12(Contracts for electric construction) #

Article 13(Ban on additional restrictions on qualifications for receiving contracts) #

Article 14(Restrictions on activities) #

Article 15(Request for replacement of subcontractors) #

Article 15-2(Electrical construction contractor's warranty against defects) #

Article 16(Execution management of electrical construction) #

Article 17(Designation of person in charge of execution management) #

Article 17-2(Recognition as electrical construction engineers) #

Article 18(Duties of electrical construction engineers) #

Article 18-2(Prohibition of lending career pocketbook) #

Article 19(Education and training for electrical construction engineers) #

Article 20(Reporting on changes in details of designation) #

Article 21(Revocation of designation as educational and training institutions) #

Article 22(Execution of electrical construction) #

Article 22-2(Standards for calculating electrical construction expenses) #

Article 22-3(Constructor's purchase of non-life insurance) #

Article 23(Restrictions on indication of constructors) #

Article 24(Installation of electrical construction signs) #

Article 25(Establishment of constructors' association) #

Article 26(Application mutatis mutandis of the Civil Act) #

Article 27(Corrective orders) #

Article 28(Revocation of registration) #

Article 28-2(Revocation of recognition as electrical construction engineer) #

Article 28-3(Request for administrative disposition against violations in areas other than district under jurisdiction) #

Article 29(Request for measures by interested persons) #

Article 29-2(Investigation on actual conditions of constructor) #

Article 30(Hearings) #

Article 31(Integrated management of construction-business-related information) #

Article 32(Delegation and entrustment of authority) #

Article 33(Legal fiction of public officials in application of penalty provisions) #

Article 34(Ban on seizure of wages) #

Article 35(Fees) #

Article 36(Prohibition of divulging confidential information) #

Article 37(Prohibition of divulging information obtained in course of performing duties) #

Article 38(Policies for advancing construction business) #

Article 39(Measures for support of small and medium constructors) #

Article 40(Penalty provisions) #

Article 41(Penalty provisions) #

Article 41-2(Penalty provisions) #

Article 42(Penalty provisions) #

Article 43(Penalty provisions) #

Article 44 #

Article 45(Joint penalty provisions) #

Article 46(Administrative fines) #