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

Section 50 Disposition versions

2001-01-01

50. The Government may, by regulation, adopt a safety code applicable to guided land transport systems.

The code may contain safety standards concerning the following subjects:

(1)  the prevention of, and protection against, fires and accidents;

(2)  the materials, apparatus and equipment that are mandatory or prohibited in a guided land transport system;

(3)  the construction and installation of signalling systems;

(4)  the maintenance of a guideway, of the vehicles and equipment of a guided land transport system and of the signalling systems;

(5)  the coupling mechanisms, brake assemblies and safety devices with which a guided land transport vehicle must be equipped;

(6)  the rules governing vehicular traffic on a guideway, including those applying to speed limits and guideway signs and signals;

(7)  the arrangement of guided land transport vehicles in a train, convoy or consist;

(8)  the use of whistles or horns and the required communications systems in a guided land transport system;

(9)  the qualifications and skills required of the holder of a position that is critical to safe operations within a guided land transport system, as well as any other requirements he must meet, and the information he must furnish to his employer;

(10)   the qualifying examination pertaining to administrative and technical knowledge relating to the safe operation of a guided land transport system as well as the conditions for admission to and exemption from the examination in order to obtain or hold a position that is critical to safe operations within a guided land transport system;

(11)  the illnesses, impairments or situations affecting a person that may be considered to be relatively or totally incompatible with the holding of certain identified positions within a guided land transport system;

(12)  the alternation of periods of work and mandatory periods of rest.

The code may also provide for any other standard or prohibition concerning rail transportation safety, fix operating standards and prescribe that a safety plan is to be drawn up and applied by an operator.

The Government may determine among the provisions of the safety code those the contravention of which shall constitute an offence.

1988, c. 57, s. 50; 1997, c. 78, s. 15.

2000-05-01

50. The Government may, by regulation, adopt a safety code applicable to guided land transport systems.

The code may contain safety standards concerning the following subjects:

(1)  the prevention of, and protection against, fires and accidents;

(2)  the materials, apparatus and equipment that are mandatory or prohibited in a guided land transport system;

(3)  the construction and installation of signalling systems;

(4)  the maintenance of a guideway, of the vehicles and equipment of a guided land transport system and of the signalling systems;

(5)  the coupling mechanisms, brake assemblies and safety devices with which a guided land transport vehicle must be equipped;

(6)  the rules governing vehicular traffic on a guideway, including those applying to speed limits and guideway signs and signals;

(7)  the arrangement of guided land transport vehicles in a train, convoy or consist;

(8)  the use of whistles or horns and the required communications systems in a guided land transport system;

(9)  the qualifications and skills required of the holder of a position that is critical to safe operations within a guided land transport system, as well as any other requirements he must meet, and the information he must furnish to his employer;

(10)   the qualifying examination pertaining to administrative and technical knowledge relating to the safe operation of a guided land transport system as well as the conditions for admission to and exemption from the examination in order to obtain or hold a position that is critical to safe operations within a guided land transport system;

(11)  the illnesses, impairments or situations affecting a person that may be considered to be relatively or totally incompatible with the holding of certain identified positions within a guided land transport system;

(12)  the alternation of periods of work and mandatory periods of rest.

The Government may determine among the provisions of the safety code those the contravention of which shall constitute an offence.

1988, c. 57, s. 50.