# The Train Driving Licences and Certificates Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, Regulation 17: Monitoring

Extent: N.I.

(1) A railway undertaking must establish a system for monitoring train drivers employed by it.
(2) If the results of that monitoring call into question a train driver’s competence for the job or the continuing validity of their train driving licence or train driving certificate, the railway undertaking must immediately take any necessary action which may include—
(a) informing the Department of matters relevant to the continuing validity of the licence;
(b) requiring that driver to undergo the relevant examinations and training referred to in regulations 8(1)(d) to (f) and 9(1)(b) to (d); and
(c) suspending or withdrawing the driver’s train driving certificate.
(3) A train driver who considers that their state of health calls into question their fitness to drive trains must immediately inform the railway undertaking by whom they are employed.
(4) A railway undertaking that becomes aware that a train driver employed by it has failed to comply with regulation 13 or 15, or has failed an examination required by those regulations, or that the health of a train driver has deteriorated to a point where the driver’s fitness for the job is called into question, must immediately take any necessary action which may include—
(a) informing the Department of matters relevant to the continuing validity of the driver’s train driving licence;
(b) requiring that driver to undergo the relevant periodic examinations referred to in regulations 13 or 15; or
(c) suspending or withdrawing of the driver’s train driving certificate.
(2) A railway undertaking must inform the Department when a train driver employed by it has suffered work incapacity for a period of more than three months.
(6) For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4) a train driving licence includes a European train driving licence and a GB train driving licence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/132/regulation/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/train-driving-licences-and-certificates-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-17
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