Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The operator of a people mover system shall ensure that the system--
(a) is structurally and mechanically sound; and
(b) is maintained in a safe and serviceable condition; and
(c) is fit for the carriage of passengers.
(2) If a person authorised for the purposes of this section by the chief executive, either generally or in a particular case, (an "authorised officer") is of the opinion that a people mover system or any part thereof--
(a) is not structurally or mechanically sound; or
(b) is not being maintained in a safe and serviceable condition; or
(c) is not fit for the carriage of passengers;
the authorised officer may, by notice in writing given to the operator of the system or the person apparently in charge of the system or part--
(d) require the operator to do such things as are specified in the notice for the purpose of making the system or part structurally or mechanically sound, placing it in a safe and serviceable condition or, as the case may be, making it fit for the carriage of passengers within a time specified in the notice; and
(e) if the authorised officer is of the opinion that it is necessary or desirable in the public interest so to do--direct the operator to cease operating the system or any part thereof until the things required by the notice to be done are done and the direction is rescinded by an authorised officer.
(3) Where the things required by a notice under subsection (2) to be done are done to the satisfaction of an authorised officer, the officer may rescind the direction (if any) that the operator cease operating the system or, as the case may be, a part thereof.
(4) The operator of a people mover system shall comply with a notice under subsection (2).