National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002 (Act No. 16 of 2002)NoticesDetermination of Safety Permit Fees for the 2023/24 financial year1. Definitions |
For the purpose of calculating fees:
"activity"
means the activities undertaken by operators on a railway network;
"annual passengers"
means the total number of passengers transported aboard railway operator's passenger or commuter rolling stock between two points (i.e. a station of boarding and of disembarkation) with the exception of a train operator's personnel, over the period of an operator's most recently completed financial year;
"annual tons"
means the total sum of the mass of dangerous or general goods loaded onto a locomotive by a train operator in the preceding financial year, and transported the portion of a rail network for which the train operator has a permit to traverse;
"cape gauge"
means a type of railway track where the distance between the two rails of the track is 1,067 millimetres in length;
"general freight or passenger operators"
means network, train or station operators (or a combination thereof) whose operations include the transportation of passengers and freight that excludes dangerous or mining goods;
"mine operations"
means the operations undertaken above surface by train, network, and station operators to support mining activities;
"non-rail related revenue"
means revenue generated by Train Operators, Network Operators or Station Operators whose railway operation is incidental to its main business;
"passengers"
means people transported by a train between two points (i.e. a station of boarding and of disembarkation) with the exception of a train operator's personnel;
"rail-related revenue"
means the gross inflow of cash arising from all rail operating activities of an operator;
"relevant risk-based fee rate"
means the rand value equivalent of the risks attributable to rail activities. The units of measurement include R/Kilometres (for network operations), R/number of stations (for station operator), R/passenger kilometres (for passenger operations), and R/ton kilometre (for freight operations);
"standard gauge"
railway track where the distance between the two rails of the railway track is 1,435 millimetres in length; and
"tourist passengers"
means passengers transported aboard railway operator's rolling stock between two points (i.e. a station of boarding and of disembarkation) for recreational purposes, with the exception of a train operator's personnel and commuter passengers.