South Australian Consolidated Acts

RAIL SAFETY ACT 2007 - SECT 29

29—Duties of rail transport operators extend to contractors

        (1)         The duties of a rail transport operator under section 28 extend to a person who, not being an employee employed to carry out railway operations, undertakes railway operations on or in relation to rail infrastructure or rolling stock of the operator, and any employees of the person, in relation to matters over which the operator has control or would have control if not for any agreement purporting to limit or remove that control.

        (2)         A person to whom the duties under section 28 extend by reason of subsection (1) must comply with those duties in respect of railway operations referred to in that subsection undertaken by the person.

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         where the offender is a body corporate—$300 000;

            (b)         where the offender is a natural person—$100 000.