Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations

NORTHERN TERRITORY RAIL SAFETY REGULATIONS

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Part 1 - preliminary

   1.      Citation
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Prescribed railway safety work
   4A.     Actions of police etc. do not constitute offence

           Part 2 - fees

   5.      Prescription of fees
   6.      Payment of annual fees
   7.      Calculation of annual fees

           Part 3 - Railway employees and inspectors

   8.      Functions of railway employee
   9.      General power to give directions to leave trains or railway land
   10.     Removal of persons from trains or railway land
   10A.    Prescribed concentration of alcohol - sections 49 and 50 of Act

           Part 4 - conduct on railway land

   11.     Conduct generally
   12.     [Repealed]
   13.     Eating and drinking on trains and railway land
   14.     Drinking alcohol on trains and railway land
   15.     Intoxicated persons
   16.     Persons travelling on trains to remain inside train
   17.     No unauthorised commercial activities
   18.     [Repealed]
   19.     Lost property
   20.     Control of animals on trains and railway land
   21.     Vehicles not to be left on certain parts of railway land
   22.     Restriction on vehicles that may be driven on level crossings and other structures on railway land

           Part 5 - Trespassing and other dangerous activities

   23.     Trespassing
   24.     No placing of things on railway tracks
   25.     Unauthorised use of communications systems, safety equipment, barriers, gates and fences

           Part 6 - using Crossings and gates

   26.     Crossing railway tracks generally
   27.     Pedestrians crossing railway tracks
   28.     Restriction on certain vehicles crossing railway tracks at level crossings
   29.     Driving animals across railway tracks
   29A.    Driving herd or mob of animals on hoof across railway tracks
   30.     Barriers and gates to be closed

           Part 7 - testing for alcohol and drugs

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   31.     Definitions
   32.     Actions by medical practitioner

           Division 2 - Testing

   33.     Inspector may test breath of railway employee
   34.     Circumstances when inspector able to require provision of sample of blood or urine
   35.     Railway employee may request blood or urine testing in place of breath test
   36.     Procedure after test by breath analysis indicates railway employee under influence of alcohol
   37.     Taking sample of blood or urine
   38.     Procedures relating to blood and urine tests - health practitioners
   39.     Procedures relating to blood and urine tests - analysts

           Division 3 - Offences

   40.     Compliance with requirements to submit to test or give sample
   41.     Alteration of concentration of alcohol or drug in blood

           Division 4 - Evidence

   42.     Presumption as to concentration of alcohol in blood
   43.     Certificates as evidence
   44.     Presumptions as to certificates

           Division 5 - Miscellaneous

   45.     Inspectors who may carry out breath tests or breath analyses
   46.     Use of breath analysis instruments
   47.     Authorisation of analysts to carry out analyses of blood or urine
   48.     Reports relating to railway employee's refusal or failure to be tested
   49.     Duty of health practitioner who takes sample
   50.     Protection from liability of health practitioners and analysts
   51.     Self-incrimination no excuse
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2