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NO. 36 OF 2018


Amendment of Rapid Transit Systems Act

56. The Rapid Transit Systems Act (Cap. 263A, 2004 Ed.) is amended by deleting paragraph (e) of section 45(2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(e) reporting to the Authority of accidents on any part of a railway operated by a licensee, and investigating into such accidents;”.

Saving and transitional

57.—(1) Every investigation or inquiry into an accident or incident that—

(a) started before the date of commencement of section 51—
(i) under Part IIA of the Air Navigation Act; or
(ii) under Part V of the Merchant Shipping Act by an inspector appointed under section 108 of that Act; and
(b) remains uncompleted immediately before that date,

must continue as if this Act had not been enacted.

(2) Despite subsection (1), every investigation or inquiry mentioned in that subsection must be treated as if an investigation under this Act for the purposes of—

(a) Part 6, and particularly the definition of “restricted information” in section 43; and
(b) section 12 of the Air Navigation Act as amended by this Act.

(3) Every individual who, immediately before the date of commencement of section 23, is appointed—

(a) an Inspector of Accidents under section 13B(1) of the Air Navigation Act; or