Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014 (ACT)
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014
SL2014-29
made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014
Republication No 4
Effective: 29 July 2025
Republication date: 29 July 2025
Last amendment made by SL2025‑15
About this republication
The republished law
This is a republication of the Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014, made under the Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014 (including any amendment made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes)) as in force on 29 July 2025. It also includes any commencement, amendment, repeal or expiry affecting this republished law to 29 July 2025.
The legislation history and amendment history of the republished law are set out in endnotes 3 and 4.
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Editorial changes
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This republication does not include amendments made under part 11.3 (see endnote 1).
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Modifications
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Penalties
At the republication date, the value of a penalty unit for an offence against this law is $160 for an individual and $810 for a corporation (see Legislation Act 2001, s 133).
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014
made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014
Contents
Page
1 Name of regulation 2
3 Alcohol screening device—Act, s 10, def alcohol screening device, par (b) 2
4 Drug screening device—Act, s 10, def drug screening device, par (b) 2
5 Oral fluid analysis instrument—Act, s 10, def oral fluid analysis instrument, par (b) 2
5A Conduct of breath analysis—requirements for statement or notice—Act, s 15 (6) and (7) 2
6 Oral fluid analysis of sample from worker in custody—requirements for statement—Act, s 21 (4) 3
Endnotes
1 About the endnotes 4
2 Abbreviation key 4
3 Legislation history 5
4 Amendment history 5
5 Earlier republications 6
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014
made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014
Name of regulation
This regulation is the Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014.
Alcohol screening device—Act, s 10, def alcohol screening device, par (b)
The AlcoQuant 6020 is prescribed.
Drug screening device—Act, s 10, def drug screening device, par (b)
The following devices are prescribed:
(a)Clonal Technologies Oral Fluid Drug Test 7;
(b)MedVet Oral7;
(c)Oranoxis ToxWipe Oral 7+.
Oral fluid analysis instrument—Act, s 10, def oral fluid analysis instrument, par (b)
The Shimadzu High Performance Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer LCMS-8060 is prescribed.
5AConduct of breath analysis—requirements for statement or notice—Act, s 15 (6) and (7)
(1)For the Act, section 15 (6), a written statement given to a rail safety worker in relation to an analysis of the worker’s breath must include the following:
(a)for the authorised person who carried out the breath analysis—the person’s—
(i)name or service number; and
(ii)signature;
(b)if the worker was taken into custody under the Act, section 14, to undertake the breath analysis—the service number and signature of the police officer who took the worker into custody;
(c)the particulars mentioned in the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Regulation 2000, schedule 1, other than item 4 and item 5.
(2)For the Act, section 15 (7), a written notice is taken to have been given to a rail safety worker in relation to an analysis of the worker’s breath if a written statement mentioned in subsection (1) has been given to the worker in relation to the analysis.
Oral fluid analysis of sample from worker in custody—requirements for statement—Act, s 21 (4)
The particulars mentioned in the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Regulation 2000, schedule 2 are required to be included in a statement mentioned in the Act, section 21 (4).
Endnotes
About the endnotes
Amending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the amendment history. Current modifications are not included in the republished law but are set out in the endnotes.
Not all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are annotated in the amendment history. Full details of any amendments can be obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Uncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law. The details of these laws are underlined in the legislation history. Uncommenced expiries are underlined in the legislation history and amendment history.
If all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered provisions gives details of previous and current numbering.
The endnotes also include a table of earlier republications.
Abbreviation key
A = Act NI = Notifiable instrument AF = Approved form o = order am = amended om = omitted/repealed amdt = amendment ord = ordinance AR = Assembly resolution orig = original ch = chapter par = paragraph/subparagraph CN = Commencement notice pres = present def = definition prev = previous DI = Disallowable instrument (prev...) = previously dict = dictionary pt = part disallowed = disallowed by the Legislative r = rule/subrule Assembly reloc = relocated div = division renum = renumbered exp = expires/expired R[X] = Republication No Gaz = gazette RI = reissue hdg = heading s = section/subsection IA = Interpretation Act 1967 sch = schedule ins = inserted/added sdiv = subdivision LA = Legislation Act 2001 SL = Subordinate law LR = legislation register sub = substituted LRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 underlining = whole or part not commenced mod = modified/modification or to be expired
Legislation history
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014 SL2014-29
notified LR 17 November 2014
s 1, s 2 commenced 17 November 2014 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 20 November 2014 (s 2 and see Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014 A2014-14, s 2 and LA s 79)as amended by
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Amendment Regulation 2017 SL2017‑2
notified LR 23 February 2017
s 1, s 2 commenced 23 February 2017 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 24 February 2017 (s 2)Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Amendment Regulation 2023 (No 1) SL2023-3
notified LR 9 February 2023
s 1, s 2 commenced 9 February 2023 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 10 February 2023 (s 2)Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Amendment Regulation 2025 (No 1) SL2025-15
notified LR 28 July 2025
s 1, s 2 commenced 28 July 2025 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 29 July 2025 (s 2)Amendment history
Commencement
s 2om LA s 89 (4)
Drug screening device—Act, s 10, def drug screening device, par (b)
s 4sub SL2025‑15 s 4
Oral fluid analysis instrument—Act, s 10, def oral fluid analysis instrument, par (b)
s 5sub SL2023‑3 s 4
Conduct of breath analysis—requirements for statement or notice—Act, s 15 (6) and (7)
s 5Ains SL2017‑2 s 4
Earlier republications
Some earlier republications were not numbered. The number in column 1 refers to the publication order.
Since 12 September 2001 every authorised republication has been published in electronic pdf format on the ACT legislation register. A selection of authorised republications have also been published in printed format. These republications are marked with an asterisk (*) in column 1. Electronic and printed versions of an authorised republication are identical.
Republication No and date Effective Last amendment made by Republication for R1
20 Nov 201420 Nov 2014–
23 Feb 2017not amended new regulation R2
24 Feb 201724 Feb 2017–
9 Feb 2023SL2017‑2 amendments by SL2017‑2 R3
10 Feb 202310 Feb 2023–
28 July 2025SL2023‑3 amendments by SL2023‑3
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