Railway Safety Act (Northern Ireland) 2002

Accidents, etc.N.I.

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3.—(1) The Department may make regulations requiring the reporting to it of—

(a)accidents involving death or personal injury, and

(b)circumstances involving a danger of death or personal injury,

which occur in the operation of railways.

(2) Regulations under this section shall prescribe the cases in which reports are required, the persons required to make them, the time and manner in which they are to be made, and the particulars to be included in them.

(3) Regulations under this section may include provision authorising the Department—

(a)to dispense with compliance with any provision of the regulations that would otherwise apply, or

(b)to require compliance with any provision that would not otherwise apply,

in any case where the Department considers it appropriate to do so.

(4) A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to make a report as required by regulations under this section shall be guilty of an offence.

(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

(6) Regulations under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.