Western Australian Consolidated Acts

RAIL SAFETY ACT 1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Terms used in this Act  
   4.      Application of Act  
   5.      Relationship to Government Railways Act 1904  
   6.      Act binds the Crown  

   PART 2 -- Accreditation of owners and operators  

           Division 1 -- General provisions  

   7.      Requirement for accreditation  
   8.      Granting accreditation  
   9.      Safety standards -- compliance specification  
   10.     Safety management plans  
   11.     Interim accreditation  
   12.     Duration of accreditation  
   13.     Style and particulars of accreditation  
   14.     Conditions  
   15.     Private sidings  

           Division 2 -- Refusal, variation, suspension or cancellation of accreditation  

   16.     Refusal of application for accreditation  
   17.     Variation of accreditation  
   18.     Suspension or cancellation of accreditation  
   19.     Immediate suspension  

           Division 3 -- Dispute resolution  

   20.     Dispute resolution  

           Division 4 -- Related matters  

   21.     Matters relating to applications  
   22.     Annual fees  
   23.     Rail Safety Accreditation Account  
   24.     Periodic returns  
   25.     Surrender of accreditation  

   PART 3 -- Safety standards and measures  

   26.     Compliance with rail safety standards  
   27.     Requirement to maintain safety systems, devices or appliances  
   28.     Installation of safety or protective devices  
   29.     Closing railway crossings, bridges etc.  
   30.     Power to require works to stop  
   31.     Railway employees  

   PART 4 -- Compliance inspections and reporting  

   32.     Safety compliance inspections  
   33.     Directions to undertake remedial safety work  
   34.     Directions to provide programme of remedial safety work  
   35.     Declarations as to variation of accreditation  
   36.     Safety reports  
   37.     Supply of information  
   38.     Reports -- notifiable occurrences and other incidents  
   39.     Director General may require report from owner or operator  
   40.     Request for certain details  

   PART 5 -- Inquiries and inspections  

           Division 1 -- Inquiries  

   41.     Appointment of investigator  
   42.     Procedures and powers of an investigator  
   43.     Report  
   44.     Inquiry may continue despite other proceedings  

           Division 2 -- Inspections, etc.  

   45.     Appointment of authorised officers  
   46.     Inspection powers  
   47.     Entry under warrant  
   48.     Provisions relating to seizure  

           Division 3 -- Provisions relating to inquiries and inspections  

   49.     Offence to hinder persons appointed under this Part  
   50.     Self-incrimination  

   PART 6 -- Miscellaneous  

           Division 1 -- General offences and proceedings  

   51.     False information  
   52.     Tampering with railway equipment  
   53.     Offender to state name and address  
   54.     Daily penalty for continuing offences  
   55.     Provision relating to offence by body corporate  
   56.     Proceedings  
   57.     Evidentiary provision  

           Division 2 -- Other matters  

   57A.    Delegation  
   58.     Recovery of cost of entry and inspection  
   59.     Protection from liability for wrongdoing  
   60.     Vicarious liability of accredited person for acts or omissions of employees or agents  
   61.     Regulations  
   62.     Adoption of code etc. in regulations  
   63.      Review of Act  
   64.     Transitional provisions  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Subject matter for regulations  
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Transitional provisions  
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[Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 4 May 2007]