# THE RAILWAYS (SAFETY MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2006, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: N.I.

(1) In these Regulations—
“building operation” means—
(a)the construction, structural alteration, repair or maintenance of a building and maintenance shall include repointing, redecoration and external cleaning of the structure;
(b)demolition of a building; or
(c)preparation for and laying the foundation of an intended building,
but does not include any operation which is a work of engineering construction;
“common safety methods” (CSMs“) means the methods to be developed, pursuant to article 6 of the Directive, to describe how—
(a)safety levels;
(b)achievement of safety targets; and
(c)compliance with other safety requirements,
are assessed, as revised and reissued from time to time;
“common safety targets” (“CSTs”) means the minimum safety levels as set out in paragraph 17 of Schedule 7, that must be reached by the railway system, or parts of the railway system, expressed in risk categories as defined in paragraph 2 of Schedule 7;
“competent person” means, except for the purposes of Part 4, a person who—
(a)has sufficient skills, knowledge, experience and resources to undertake the safety verification in relation to which he is appointed;
(b)has not borne such responsibility in relation to any of the matters he has to consider in undertaking that safety verification that might compromise his objectivity; and
(c)is sufficiently independent of a judgment system, or a part thereof, which has borne responsibility for any of the matters he has to consider in undertaking the safety verification, to ensure that he will be objective in carrying out the safety verification for which he is appointed;
“conventional Directive” means Council Directive 2001/16 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19th March 2001 on the interoperability of the conventional rail system ;
“Department” means the Department for Infrastructure established by article 3(1) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and renamed by section 1(6) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016;)
“the Directive” means Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety on the Community’s railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification as amended by—
(a)The Interoperability Directive;
(b) Directive 2008/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/49/EC on safety on the Community’s railways;
(c)Commission Directive 2009/149/EC amending Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards Common Safety Indicators and common methods to calculate accident costs; and
(d)Commission Directive 2014/88/EU amending Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards common safety indicators and common methods of calculating accident costs.
“engineering possession” means a section of track which is closed to normal traffic and where the closure is for the purpose of carrying out maintenance which shall include any repair, alteration, reconditioning, examination or testing of infrastructure;
“entity in charge of maintenance” means an entity in charge of maintenance of a vehicle, and includes a transport undertaking, an infrastructure manager or a keeper;
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“heritage vehicle” for the purpose of these regulations means rolling stock which is operated to—
(a)preserve, re-create or simulate railway vehicles of the past; or
(b)demonstrate or operate historical or special types of motive power or rolling stock;
And is exclusively or primarily used for tourist, educational or recreational purposes
“infrastructure” means fixed assets used for the operation of any railway which shall include, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing—
(a)its permanent way;
(b)any station; and
(c)plant used for signalling or exclusively for supplying electricity for operational purposes to the railway system;
“infrastructure manager” means the person who—
(a)in relation to infrastructure is responsible for developing and maintaining that infrastructure, except that it shall not include any person solely on the basis that he carries out the construction of that infrastructure or its maintenance, repair or alteration; and
(b)manages and uses that infrastructure, or permits it to be used, for the operation of a vehicle;
“Interoperability Directive” means Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17th June 2008 on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community (Recast);
“Interoperability Regulations” means The Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2006;
“keeper” means the person that, being the owner of a vehicle or having the right to use it, exploits the vehicle as a means of transport and is registered as being a keeper in the National Vehicle Register;
“maintenance file” means all the technical and management information that is necessary to carry out the maintenance of a vehicle;
“maintenance rules” means any rules, applicable to the whole of Northern Ireland, which set out requirements relating to the maintenance of vehicles;
“material” includes plant;
“national safety rules” means any legislation and other requirements—
(a)applicable to Northern Ireland; and
(b)which contain requirements (including common operating rules) relating to railway safety,
except that where the requirements in sub-paragraph (b) consist of common operating rules of the railway it shall not include such rules which regulate matters which are covered by a TSI;
“National Vehicle Register” means the register of vehicles authorised in Northern Ireland, required by regulation 33 of the Interoperability Regulations;
“new” in relation to regulation 4 means new to any railway;
“Office of Rail and Road” means the body established by section 15 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 and renamed by the Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2006;
“Part A of a safety certificate” means that part of a safety certificate certifying the matters set out in regulation 7(4)(b)(i);
“Part B of a safety certificate” means that part of a safety certificate certifying the matters set out in regulation 7(4)(b)(ii);
“railway” means a system of transport employing parallel rails which—
(a)provide support and guidance for vehicles carried on flanged wheels, and
(b)form a track which is of a gauge of at least 350 millimetres,
except that it does not include any part which is located within a maintenance or goods depot.
“railway operator” means a person who is an infrastructure manager or who operates trains;
“railway safety application” means an application for—
(a)a safety certificate or an amended safety certificate; or
(b)a safety authorisation or an amended safety authorisation,
made in relation to an operation on any railway;
“railway system” means any railway and the management and operation of that railway network as a whole;
“relevant infrastructure manager” means the infrastructure manager for any infrastructure in relation to the operation in question;
“relevant infrastructure or vehicle” means any new or altered–—
(a)infrastructure; or
(b)vehicle,
falling within regulation 4(4) and related expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“responsible person” means in relation to any relevant infrastructure or vehicle, any person who—
(a)has contracted with another person for the manufacture or construction by that other person of that infrastructure or vehicle; or
(b)manufactures or constructs that infrastructure or vehicle for its own use, or for sale to, or use by, another person but not where he is contracted to do so by a person falling under sub–paragraph (a),
and includes an authorised representative established in Northern Ireland of such a person.
“risk” means in Parts 1 and 2 a risk to the safety of the person;
“rolling stock” means any carriage, wagon or other vehicle used on track and includes a locomotive;
“safety authorisation” means a safety authorisation issued by the Department in accordance with regulations 8 or 10;
“safety authority” means—
(a)as regards a member State of the European Union, the national safety authority established in that State in accordance with article 16 of Directive EU 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety ;
(b)as regards Great Britain, the Office of Rail and Road;
(c)as regards Northern Ireland, the Department;
“safety certificate” means a safety certificate issued by the Department in accordance with regulations 5 or 7;
“safety management system” means the organisation and arrangements established by a railway operator to ensure the safe management of its operation;
“significant safety risk” means, in relation to new or altered infrastructure or a new or altered vehicle the design or construction of which incorporates significant changes compared to any infrastructure or vehicle already in use on any railway, the capability of significantly increasing an existing risk or creating a significant safety risk to—
(a)passengers on any railway; or
(b)members of the public in any location where the railway operates and to which the public have access (including a place to which the public has access only on making payment), except a location which is a crossing subject to an Order made under section 66(4) of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
“station” means any railway passenger station, halt or terminal, but does not include any permanent way or plant used for signalling; or exclusively for supplying electricity for operational purposes to any railway;
“technical specifications for interoperability” (“TSIs”) means technical specifications for interoperability which are published in the Official Journal of the European Union pursuant to—
(a)article 6.1 of the high–speed Directive; ...
(b)article 6.1 of the Conventional Directive, or
(c) Article 6.1 of Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17th June 2008 on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community,
and in force;
“train” includes any rolling stock;
“vehicle”—
(a)includes a mobile traction unit; and
(b)in respect of the railway system, means a vehicle suitable for circulation on its own wheels on railway lines, with or without traction, and composed of one or more structural and functional subsystems or parts of such subsystems;
“work of engineering construction” means the—
(a)construction of any line or siding otherwise than on any existing railway; and
(b)construction, structural alteration, repair (including repointing and repainting) or demolition or any tunnel, bridge or viaduct except where carried on upon any railway; and
“writing” apart from its usual meaning includes any text transmitted using electronic communications that is received, or accessible by the person to whom it is sent, in eligible form.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a person operating a train or a vehicle is a reference to the person operating the train or vehicle for the time being in the course of a business or other undertaking carried on by him, whether for profit or not, but it does not include a self–employed person by reason only that he drives or otherwise controls the movement of a train or vehicle.

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