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), Rlpassenger 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.