Railway Safety Act 2005
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PART 6 Regulations and Review of Legislation | ||
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Regulations. |
69.—(1) The Commission, with the consent of the Minister and after consultation with the Council, railway undertakings, organisations which represent staff of railway undertakings and such other persons as in the opinion of the Commission may be relevant, may make regulations in relation to all or any of the following— | |
(a) standards and specifications for railway infrastructure and rolling stock, | ||
(b) additional matters to be included in a safety management system or a safety case for the purposes of section 39 , | ||
(c) requirements or restrictions relating to the management of passengers and other persons on railway property, including in relation to persons standing in trains, the placing of luggage in trains, and emergency evacuation from trains, | ||
(d) levels of training, competencies and qualifications of staff of railway undertakings, including disability awareness training and requirements on railway undertakings to facilitate staff holding positions before the entry into operation of such regulations in achieving any required level of training, competency or qualification, | ||
(e) requirements relating to interfaces between railway undertakings, | ||
(f) requirements relating to interfaces between railway infrastructure or trains and any other vehicle or road, | ||
(g) requirements relating to the reporting by railway undertakings of railway incidents, including the form of reporting and the classification of railway incidents to be reported, | ||
(h) procedures for the acceptance of new works (within the meaning of section 42 (15)) and new rolling stock (within the meaning of section 43 (14)), | ||
(i) requirements for the maintenance by a railway undertaking of records, and | ||
(j) standards, specifications and procedures to be used by railway undertakings to safely facilitate the special requirements of mobility-impaired persons. | ||
(2) Regulations made by the Commission under subsection (1) shall not be for the purpose of giving effect to an act adopted by an institution of the European Communities. | ||
(3) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to an act adopted by an institution of the European Communities in relation to railway safety. | ||
(4) Regulations under subsection (3) may contain such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of the regulations (including provisions repealing, amending or applying, with or without modification, other law, exclusive of this Act). |