3.—(1) Section 6 (Companies to make returns of accidents to Board of Trade) of the Regulation of Railways Act 1871(1) and section 13(2) of the Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act 1900(2) are hereby repealed.
(2) Section 7 of the Regulation of Railways Act 1871 (Inquiry into accidents and formal investigation in serious cases) shall be amended as follows: –
(a)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 and is required to be reported by regulation 3(1) of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997”;
(b)after the word “accident”, in each place where it subsequently occurs, there shall be added the words “or occurrence”.