In these Regulations, any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act has the meaning so assigned and,  unless the context otherwise indicates—

"industry standard"

means a standard developed, adopted or accepted by a railway industry association in accordance with these Regulations to meet specific industry requirements;

"interface"

means an area, point or location, either physical or organisational, where two or more operators' activities meet and where the activities have the potential to affect one another;

"intraface"

means an area, point or location, either physical or organisational, where the activities or assets of two or more functional disciplines within a railway operator meet, and where the activities  or assets interact or have potential to affect one another;

"local standard"

means a standard developed, adopted or accepted by the relevant operator in accordance with these Regulations to meet specific local, geographical, route, operational, and interface or intraface requirements;

"local standards committee"

means the relevant operators committee established in terms of regulation 7(2)(a) of these Regulations;

"national standard"

means a South African National Standard approved and issued by the South African Bureau of Standards in terms of the Standards Act, 2008 (Act No. 8 of 2008);

"regulator standard"

means a standard developed, adopted or accepted by the board in accordance with these Regulations to meet the general technical and operational safety requirements  of operators;

"standard"

means a document, compiled by a recognised body, that provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context and includes vocabularies, methods, specifications, codes of practice, guides and recommendations;

"technical committee"

means a committee established by the board in terms of these Regulations;

"the Act"

means the National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002 (A c t No.16 of 2002).