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Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018 · Updated to 10 Jan 2025 · Part 4 · Investigations and Reports

22. Responses to reports of, or containing, safety recommendations

(1)

This section applies if —

(a)

the Director —

(i)

publishes a report under section 20 in relation to an investigation;

(ii)

receives a report from an appropriate foreign authority about a transport occurrence; or

(iii)

publishes a report in relation to a transport safety matter; and

(b)

the report is, or contains, a recommendation that a person, unincorporated association, or a public authority or public officer, in Singapore take safety actions.

(2)

The person, unincorporated association, public authority or public officer to whom a recommendation mentioned in subsection (1)(b) is made must give a written response to the Director within a prescribed time after the report was published, that sets out whether the person, association, authority or officer accepts the recommendation (in whole or part), and —

(a)

if the person, unincorporated association, public authority or public officer accepts the recommendation in whole — details of any action that the person, association, authority or officer proposes to take to give effect to the recommendation; or

(b)

if the person, unincorporated association, public authority or public officer does not accept the recommendation in whole — the reasons why the person, association, authority or officer does not accept the recommendation in whole.

(3)

A person, unincorporated association, public authority or public officer who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with subsection (2) commits an offence.

(4)

A person, unincorporated association, public authority or public officer who is guilty of an offence under subsection (3) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

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