Western Australian Current Acts

RAILWAYS (ACCESS) ACT 1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   2A.     Object of the Act
            
           3 M. Terms used in this Act
            
   3A.     Scope of access rights clarified
            
   3B.     Access rights may bind person through whom title derives in certain cases

   PART 2 -- Establishment of Code  

   4.      Minister to establish Code
            
   5.      Criteria to be considered in applying Code to particular routes
            
   6.      Other matters for which Code may make provision
            
   7.      Code does not affect existing agreements
            
   8.      Code is subject to Rail Safety National Law (WA) Act 2015
            
   9.      Code is subsidiary legislation
            
   10.     Public comment on amendment or replacement of Code
            
   11.     Exception to section
            
   11A.     Consultation with railway owners on amendment or replacement of Code
            
   11B.    Amending Code for purposes of TPI Railway and Port Agreement
            
   12.     Review of Code

   PART 3 -- The Regulator  

   20.     Functions of Regulator
            
   21.     Powers to obtain information
            
   22.     Powers in respect of documents etc.
            
   22A.    Power of entry
            
   22B.    Obstruction and deception
            
   22C.    Legal professional privilege
            
   22D.    Self-incrimination
            
   23.     Confidentiality

   PART 4 -- Administrative and accounting arrangements

           Division 1 -- Preliminary  

   24.     Terms used in this PART
            
   25.     This Part prevails over the Government Railways Act 1904

           Division 2 -- Administrative arrangements  

   26.     Authority to make administrative arrangements
            
   27.     Delegation

           Division 3 -- Segregation of access-related functions  

   28.     Duty to segregate
            
   29.     Powers of Regulator in relation to segregation
            
   30.     Matters to be covered under section
            
   31.      Protection of confidential information
            
   32.     Avoidance of conflict of interest
            
   33.     Duty of fairness
            
   34.     Maintenance of separate accounts and records

   PART 5 -- Enforcement  

   34A.    Prohibitions on hindering or preventing access
            
   35.     Contract enforcement not affected
            
   36.     Remedies
            
   37.     Injunctions
            
           Uncommenced provisions table
            
           Other notes
           Defined terms
           
to amend — 
         •         the Government
           Railways Act 1904 to make consequential
           amendments 2; and 
         •         the
           National Rail Corporation Agreement Act 1992 2,
           3,

           
and for related purposes.

           
         [Long title amended: No. 13 of 2000 s. 61; No. 55 of
           2000 s. 4; No. 67 of 2003 Sch. 2 cl. 54.]