Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

NORTHERN TERRITORY RAIL SAFETY ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

           Division 1 - General

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Act binds Crown
   4.      Definitions
   5.      Application of Act

           Division 2 - Administration

   6.      Director of Rail Safety
   7.      Delegation
   8.      Exemption from application of Act

   PART 2 - ACCREDITATION

           Division 1 - General

   9.      Requirement for accreditation for owner and operator of railway
   10.     Person may be accredited as both owner and operator
   11.     Accreditation not transferable

           Division 2 - Application for Accreditation

   12.     Application for accreditation
   13.     Safety management plans

           Division 3 - Grant of Accreditation

   14.     Grant of accreditation as owner
   15.     Grant of accreditation as operator
   16.     Refusal to grant accreditation

           Division 4 - Form, Terms and Conditions of Accreditation

   17.     Accreditation may be permanent or temporary
   18.     Duration of accreditation
   19.     Form of accreditation
   20.     Conditions of accreditation

           Division 5 - Register of Accredited Persons

   21.     Register of accredited persons

           Division 6 - Variation of Accreditation

   22.     Variation of accreditation
   23.     Declaration as to variation of accreditation

           Division 7 - Disciplinary

   24.     Variation, suspension and cancellation of accreditation
   25.     Immediate variation or suspension of accreditation
   26.     Suspension or cancellation in case of failure to pay prescribed fee or lodge prescribed return
   27.     Surrender of accreditation

   PART 3 - PRIVATE SIDINGS

   28.     Registration of private siding
   29.     Owner to register private siding
   30.     Conditions of registration of private siding
   31.     Notice of registration to be given to owner
   32.     Owner of registered private siding to comply with Act and conditions of registration
   33.     Register of private sidings
   34.     Suspension or cancellation in case of failure to pay prescribed fee or lodge prescribed return
   35.     Review of registration of private siding
   36.     Grant of temporary accreditation where railway track no longer a private siding

           part 4 - safety COMPLIANCE

           Division 1 - Definitions

   37.     Definitions

           Division 2 - Safety Compliance

   38.     Compliance with safety standards
   39.     Compliance with safety management plan
   40.     Requirement to maintain safety systems, devices or appliances
   41.     Safety compliance inspections

           Division 3 - Controls

   42.     Direction to undertake remedial safety work
   43.     Direction to provide program of remedial safety work
   44.     Installation of safety or protective devices
   45.     Closing railway crossings, bridges, &c.
   46.     Power to require works to stop, &c.
   47.     Where requirements of direction not complied with
   48.     Power of entry, &c.

           Division 4 - Railway Employees

   49.     Obligations of accredited person, &c., in respect of railway employees
   50.     Obligations of railway employee

   PART 5 - REPORTING AND PROVISION OF OTHER INFORMATION TO THE DIRECTOR

   51.     Reports on notifiable occurences
   52.     Other reporting
   53.     Verification by statutory declaration

   PART 6 - INVESTIGATIONS AND INSPECTIONS

           Division 1 - Investigations and Investigators

   54.     Investigators
   55.     Functions of investigator
   56.     Appointment of persons to assist investigator
   57.     Conduct of investigation
   58.     Investigator power to enter and take control of place or building
   59.     Investigator's report
   60.     Withholding of information contained in report
   61.     Director may inspect of give directions as a consequence of investigator's report
   62.     Offences relating to investigators

           Division 2 - Inspections and Inspectors

   63.     Appointment of inspectors
   64.     Identity cards
   65.     Functions of inspectors
   66.     Inspection, &c.
   67.     Search warrants
   68.     Inspector may require defects to be remedied, &c.
   69.     Recovery of costs of inspection
   70.     Offence to hinder, &c., inspector
   71.     Person not to hold himself or herself out as inspector

           Division 3 - Detention, Return, Forfeiture and Disposal of Thing Seized

   72.     Delivery of thing seized to Director
   73.     Detention of thing seized
   74.     Return of thing seized
   75.     Return of thing seized pending prosecution
   76.     Forfeiture of thing seized
   77.     Disposal of thing seized

   PART 7 - REVIEWS AND APPEALS

   78.     Director may review decisions
   79.     Appeal against outcome of review
   80.     Operation of decision pending review or appeal

   PART 8 - GENERAL OFFENCES AND PROCEEDINGS

           Division 1 - General Offences

   81.     False information
   82.     Fraudulent use, &c., of accreditation, &c.
   83.     Tampering with railway equipment
   84.     Changes to be notified
   85.     Protection against unlawful dismissal, &c.
   86.     Non-disclosure of information

           Division 2 - Procedural Matters

   87.     Offences by body corporates
   88.     Prosecution of accredited persons, &c., for actions of employees
   89.     Evidentiary
   90.     Self-incrimination

   PART 9 - MISCELLANEOUS

   91.     Giving or lodgement of notices and applications
   92.     No liability or compensation for loss, &c.
   93.     Powers of police
   94.     Acquisition to be on just terms
   95.     Regulations
   96.     Transitional