Re: [General] Rules & Regulations under privatization

["keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>]

Maurie Daly <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:16:13 +1100, robson <robson@cia.com.au> wrote:
>
> Since the NSW DOT administers the NSW Safety Act ,it should be the NSW
> DOT that writes the rules and regulations,not the Rail Infrastructure
> Corporation who are simply a rail owner.
>
> MD
>

The thing most people don't realise is, the DOT are purely a regulator, they
oversee RIC as well as the operators. All owners, operators, and maintainers
have to be accredited with the DOT, and work under their own accreditation
agreements. Once each operator is accredited, the DOT only regulate each
operator to their individual documents.  The rules and reg's are devised by
the railway owner (RIC on the state system, BHP on their internal system
etc). Each operator is accredited by the DOT as a NSW operator, this doesn't
necessarily mean you can run on RIC or any other owners lines, you must also
be accredited by the owner. It is, IMO, a bit of an over regulated bullshit
system.

Dave Malcolm