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National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002 (Act No. 16 of 2002)

Chapter 5 : Safety Management

Part 1 : Safety management systems and standards

29. Standards

 

(1) The Minister must make regulations on the procedure to be followed by the board and any other person in the development, adoption or acceptance of standards for safe railway operations.

[Subsection (1) substituted by section 14 of Act No. 69 of 2008]

 

(2) Standards adopted by the board in compliance with the prescribed procedure become binding on all persons authorised under this Act to conduct railway operations.

 

(3) The board may, subject to the principles and objects of this Act, grant exemption from compliance with any standard to any person authorised under this Act to conduct railway operations.

 

(4) Should a conflict arise between the standards and the regulations, the regulations concerned prevail.