RAILWAY SAFETY BILL: NCOP COMMITTEE CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

RAILWAY SAFETY BILL: NCOP COMMITTEE CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

• 20 February 2024
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The NCOP Committee on Transport, Public Service & Administration, and Public Works & Infrastructure has called for submissions by 25 March 2024 on a ‘B’ version of the Railway Safety Bill.

This is according to a notice posted on the Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) website. As a section 76 piece of legislation with implications for the provinces, the Bill has already been sent to the provincial legislatures for public hearings. 

Tabled in March 2021 and eventually passed by the National Assembly more than two years later, once operationalised the Bill will repeal and replace the National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002.

Against that backdrop, it seeks to:

• improve the framework for regulating railway safety
• align the legislation with developments since 2009, when the National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002, was last amended
• strengthen the role of operators in managing and implementing safety measures (‘with the regulator promoting safety and ensuring compliance’), and
• provide ‘guidance’ on the governance of the regulator.

Please click the links below for more information:

• PMG notice
• Bill’s ‘B’ version

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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