Singapore legislation

Regulation 10

of Transport Safety Investigations (Railway Occurrences) Regulations 2023

Regulation 10

Meaning of “ordinary reportable matter”

For the purposes of section 12(2) of the Act, an “ordinary reportable matter” means each of the following rail incidents that happens in the territory of Singapore and that is neither a rail casualty nor a serious rail incident:

(a)

the rail vehicle —

(i)

caused or sustained just smoke; or

(ii)

caused damage to the rail infrastructure of that railway, which poses a threat to the safe passage of the rail vehicle or other rail vehicles, or to the safety of any individual, property or the environment;

(b)

a near collision;

(c)

a signal passed at danger on a non-mainline track of a railway;

(d)

a rail vehicle exceeded the limits of authorised movement in a proceed authority or moves without proceed authority on, or onto, the railway;

(e)

a door of the rail vehicle or a platform screen door opened or remained open (without having been commanded to open) while the rail vehicle was in motion;

(f)

an occurrence that had, or could have had, an immediate or direct threat to the safe operation of the railway.