PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46BC
Transport safety inquiries
PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 46BC
Transport safety inquiries
46BC Transport safety inquiries
(1) The Minister may constitute one or more persons as a Board of Inquiry to
conduct an inquiry (a
"transport safety inquiry" ) into any transport accident or incident or any
other event, occurrence, practice or matter that may affect the safe provision
of railway operations or a public passenger service carried on by means of a
bus or ferry.
(4) A Board of Inquiry may, at a
transport safety inquiry conducted by it, take evidence on oath or affirmation
and, for that purpose, the person constituting the Board--
(a) may require a
person appearing at the inquiry to give evidence, to take an oath or to make
an affirmation in a form approved by the person presiding, and
(b) may
administer an oath to, or take an affirmation from, a person appearing at the
inquiry.