S-3.3 - Act to ensure safety in guided land transport

Section 1 Disposition versions

1989-05-17

1. For the purposes of this Act

(1)  the expression “guided land transport works” includes, in particular, level crossings, railway tracks, including subway or monorail tracks, and any other guideway as well as the infrastructures, structures and permanent structures;

(2)  the expression “level crossing” means the intersection of a railway with a public highway or with a private road open to general vehicular traffic within the meaning of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2);

(3)  the expression “guided land transport” includes transport systems propelled by electric, hydraulic, mechanical, electromechanical or other power and mechanical, electrodynamic, electromagnetic or air-cushion levitated transport, linked or not to a network, and operated on rails or other guideways.

1988, c. 57, s. 1.