New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

RAIL SAFETY ACT 1993 - SECT 79B

79B Offences relating to passengers or vehicles

(1) In this section, "train" has the same meaning it has in section 79A.

(2) The regulations may make provisions for or with respect to:

(a) the regulation or prohibition of eating, drinking or smoking in trains or in other public areas of a railway, and

(b) the conduct of passengers and drivers on trains or in other parts of a railway, and

(c) the powers and duties of drivers of trains and of authorised officers, and

(d) the authority of drivers of trains, and of authorised officers, to eject persons guilty of any contravention of a regulation, and

(e) the taking up or setting down of passengers or other matters incidental to the transport of passengers, and

(f) the carriage of passengers’ luggage or other goods, and animals, on trains, and

(g) the regulation or prohibition of the carriage of passengers standing in or on any part of a train, and

(h) the custody and return of property left in trains or in other parts of a railway, the payment of compensation for any such property and the disposal or sale of any such property not claimed and the time of any such disposal or sale, and

(i) the exhibition in or on any train or other part of a railway of such notices in the public interest as the Director-General considers necessary, and

(j) the erection and display of signs and notices for the guidance of the drivers of trains and the public, and

(k) the sale of tickets and the conditions under which tickets must be sold, and

(l) generally as to the regulation and control of trains, of their drivers and passengers, and of other parts of a railway.