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RAIL SAFETY ACT 2007 - SECT 59

59—Compliance with safety management system

        (1)         A rail transport operator must implement the rail transport operator's safety management system.

Maximum penalty:

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

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

        (2)         A rail transport operator must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with the rail transport operator's safety management system for the rail transport operator's railway operations.

Maximum penalty:

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

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

        (3)         It is a reasonable excuse if the rail transport operator—

            (a)         complies with the safety management system to the extent practicable while complying with a condition or restriction of accreditation; or

            (b)         demonstrates that compliance with the system in particular circumstances would have increased the likelihood of a notifiable occurrence happening.

        (4)         Subsection (3) does not limit the excuses that may be reasonable excuses.



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