The Railway Safety Regulations 1999

UK Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2244 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

30 July 1999

In force from

30 January 2000

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries

Made under

Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations contain provisions with respect to the use of a train protection system, Mark I rolling stock and rolling stock with hinged doors. The Regulations apply to a railway as defined in regulation 2(1) and the Schedule. The Regulations prohibit the operation of a train on a railway unless a train protection system (as defined in regulation 2(1)) is in service for that train and railway (regulation 3(1)). The Regulation provides that until 1st January 2004 it is sufficient compliance with the prohibition referred to above if a programme approved by the Health and Safety Executive for the bringing into service of a train protection system is being implemented (regulation 3(2)). Specified railways are excluded from the prohibition referred to above if there is in service other equipment specified in the regulation (regulation 3(3)). The Regulations contain specified defences in respect of equipment which has failed or been taken out of service because of a fault (regulation 3(4) and (5)). The Regulations prohibit the operation of Mark I rolling stock (as defined in regulation 2(1)), except that until 1st January 2005 the prohibition does not apply to any such stock which has been modified in a specified manner (regulation 4(1) and (3)). Specified railways are excluded from the prohibition of Mark I rolling stock (regulation 4(2)). The Regulations prohibit the operation of rolling stock with hinged doors for use by passengers, except rolling stock exclusively operated other than for the carriage of fare paying passengers (regulation 5). The Regulations empower the Health and Safety Executive to grant exemptions from the Regulations (regulation 6). The Regulations amend the Reporting of Injuries, Disease and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. The effect of the amendment is to remove an exception from the requirement to notify and report specified incidents of signals passed without authority. A copy of the regulatory impact assessment prepared in respect of these Regulations can be obtained from the Railways Directorate, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Zone 3/29 Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR. A copy has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament.

Offences created by this instrument

• Contravention of The Railway Safety Regulations 1999 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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• Railway Safety Lords · Lords Chamber · 11 October 1999 · The Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Lord Macdonald of Tradeston)

  My Lords, with permission, I wish to make a Statement about the railway accident that happened at Ladbroke Grove Junction on the approach to Paddington Station on 5th October. "At 11 minutes past eight last Tuesday morning, as we are now so tragically aware, a Great Western train travelling from Cheltenham collided with a Thames train leaving Paddington. The latest casualty list is 29 seriously injured and still in hospital, 30 confirmed dead and more still unaccounted for. All of us will have shared the shock and grief that was experienced across the country after this awful accident. All…

• London Bridge Rail Crash Commons · Commons Chamber · 8 November 1999 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill)

  Let me begin, as is usual, by congratulating the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Sir J. Stanley) on securing the debate. I also thank him for raising this important subject and for letting me know in advance the key questions that he intended to raise, the answers to which I shall endeavour to provide. Before I deal with the right hon. Gentleman's questions, and go on to summarise the Government's approach to rail safety in the light of the more recent appalling tragedy at Ladbroke Grove, it will benefit the House if I briefly describe the main aspects of the London Bridge rail…

• Rail Travel (Disabled People) Commons · Commons Chamber · 3 July 2001 · Mr. Spellar

  I take the hon. Gentleman's point that there is much scope for improvement beyond rolling stock. We need to look at what is often described as the software of the railway system, rather than just at the hardware. Under the Railway Safety Regulations 1999, all mark I rolling stock—that is, the slam-door rolling stock—has to be removed from the rail network by the end of 2004. There must be a rolling programme of replacement because of capacity limitations at the manufacturers, apart from anything else. I also take his point that we should be willing to consider innovations and ideas generated…

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