17.—(1) A railway undertaking must establish a system for monitoring train drivers employed by it.
(2) If the results of that monitoring call into question a train driver’s competence for the job or the continuing validity of their train driving licence or train driving certificate, the railway undertaking must immediately take any necessary action which may include—
(a)informing the Department of matters relevant to the continuing validity of the licence;
(b)requiring that driver to undergo the relevant examinations and training referred to in regulations 8(1)(d) to (f) and 9(1)(b) to (d); and
(c)suspension or withdrawal of their train driving certificate.
(3) A train driver who considers that his state of health calls into question his fitness to drive trains must immediately inform the railway undertaking by whom he is employed.
(4) A railway undertaking that becomes aware that a train driver employed by it has failed to comply with regulation 13 or 15, or has failed an examination required by those regulations, or that the health of a train driver has deteriorated to a point where his fitness for the job is called into question, must immediately take any necessary action which may include—
(a)informing the Department of matters relevant to the continuing validity of the licence;
(b)requiring that driver to undergo the relevant periodic examinations referred to in regulations 13 or 15; or
(c)suspension or withdrawal of his train driving certificate.
(2) A railway undertaking must inform the Department when a train driver employed by it has suffered work incapacity for a period of more than three months.