The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995

Repeal and amendment of provisions in the Regulation of Railways Act 1871, the Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act 1900 and the Transport and Works Act 1992

14.—(1) Section 6 (Companies to make returns of accidents to Board of Trade) of the Regulations of Railways Act 1871(1), section 13(2) of the Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act 1900(2) and sections 43 (Accidents etc.) and 44 (Accidents etc: consequential amendments) of the Transport and Works Act 1992(3) are hereby repealed.

(2) The Regulation of Railways Act 1871 shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in section 2 (Interpretation) there shall be added at the end the words “The term `relevant transport system' has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2 of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.”;

(b) in section 7 (Inquiry into accidents and formal investigation in serious cases) for the words “accident, of which notice is for the time being required by or in pursuance of this Act to be sent to the Board of Trade” there shall be substituted the words “accident or occurrence which arises from the operation of a relevant transport system and which is required to be reported by regulation 3(1) of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995”;

(c) in section 7, after the word “accident”, in each place where it subsequently occurs, there shall be added the words “or occurrence”;

(d) in section 8 (Appointment of an assessor to coroner) for the words “accident, of which notice for the time being is required by or in pursuance of this Act to be sent to the Board of Trade”there shall be substituted the words

• “accident or occurrence—

  (a)

  which arises from the operation of a relevant transport system, and

  (b)

  which is required to be reported under regulation 3(1) of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995,”; and

(e) in section 8, after the word “accident”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words “or occurrence”.

(1)

1871 c. 78; section 6 (as extended by section 13(2) of the Railway Employment (Protection of Accidents) Act 1900 (c. 27), modified in its effect by section 43(1) of the Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933 (c. 53) and amended by the Railways Act 1993 (Conseqential Modifications) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/857)) was to be repealed, from a day to be appointed, by section 44(1) of the Transport and Works Act 1992 (1992 c. 42).

(2)

1900 c. 27; section 13(2) was to be repealed, from a day to be appointed, by section 68(1) of, and Part I of Schedule 4 to, the Transport and Works Act 1992.

(3)

1992 c. 42; sections 43 and 44 have not been brought into force.