Railway Safety Act 2005
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Definitions, (Part 10). |
93.—(1) In this Part— | |
“analysis” includes any operation used in determining the concentration of alcohol in a specimen of breath, blood or urine, and any operation used in determining the presence (if any) of a drug or drugs in a specimen of blood or urine, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly; | ||
“Bureau” means Medical Bureau of Road Safety; | ||
“designated” means designated by a member of the Garda Síochána; | ||
“prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made by the Minister; | ||
“safety critical task” means a task specified in paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) when performed in the course of the operation of a railway undertaking, and— | ||
(a) in the course of a person's employment with the undertaking, | ||
(b) under a contract of services with the undertaking, | ||
(c) in the course of a person's employment with a person who has a contract of services with the undertaking, or | ||
(d) voluntarily or otherwise, | ||
namely— | ||
(i) driving a train, or in any other way controlling or affecting the movement of a train, | ||
(ii) controlling, affecting or managing, the movement of persons on a train, on a platform, across a level crossing, or, the boarding of, or alighting from, a train of persons, or | ||
(iii) working in a maintenance capacity (as defined in subsection (2)) or as a supervisor of, or look-out for, persons working in such capacity; | ||
“safety critical worker” means a person who performs a safety critical task. | ||
(2) For the purposes of this Part and Part 9 , a person works in the course of the operation of a railway undertaking in a maintenance capacity, if his or her work in the operation involves installation, maintenance, repair, alteration or inspection of, railway infrastructure or trains, or involves coupling or uncoupling trains or performing a pre-departure examination of trains. |