Rail Safety National Law (WA)

The main purpose of this Law is to provide for safe railway operations in Australia.

The objects of this Law are —

to establish the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (the ONRSR); and

to make provision for the appointment, functions and powers of the National Rail Safety Regulator (the Regulator); and

to make provision for a national system of rail safety, including by providing a scheme for national accreditation of rail transport operators in respect of railway operations; and

to provide for the effective management of safety risks associated with railway operations; and

to provide for the safe carrying out of railway operations; and

to provide for continuous improvement of the safe carrying out of railway operations; and

to make special provision for the control of particular risks arising from railway operations; and

to promote public confidence in the safety of transport of persons or freight by rail; and

to promote the provision of advice, information, education and training for safe railway operations; and

to promote the effective involvement of relevant stakeholders, through consultation and cooperation, in the provision of safe railway operations.

The guiding principles under this Law are —

to assist rail transport operators to achieve productivity by the provision of a national scheme for rail safety; and

to operate the national scheme in a timely, transparent, accountable, efficient, effective, consistent and fair way; and

that fees required to be paid for the provision of the national scheme are to be reasonable having regard to the efficient and effective operation of the scheme.

The Parliament does not intend by this section to create in any person any legal right or give rise to any civil cause of action.