Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) This regulation
applies if a rail infrastructure manager identifies an immediate risk to
safety resulting from exceptional circumstances or an emergency that requires
an amendment to the manager’s network rules.
(2) The rail
infrastructure manager may amend the network rules if the manager complies
with this regulation.
(3) Before making the
amendment, the rail infrastructure manager must —
(a) take
reasonable steps to notify the stakeholders of the proposed amendment and the
reasons for that change; and
(b) take
appropriate steps to mitigate any reasonably foreseeable adverse consequences
arising from implementation of the proposed amendment without stakeholders
being informed of the amendment; and
(c)
notify the Regulator of the proposed emergency amendment in the manner
approved by the Regulator for the purpose of this regulation.
(4) An amendment made
under this regulation ceases to have effect 180 days after it is
implemented, unless the rail infrastructure manager complies with
regulation 22.
(5) A rail
infrastructure manager that implements an amendment under this regulation to
deal with temporary circumstances must withdraw the amendment if circumstances
change so that the amendment is no longer necessary, or the circumstances no
longer exist.
(6) A rail
infrastructure manager who withdraws an amendment to the network rules under
subregulation (5) must —
(a) take
reasonable steps to notify the stakeholders; and
(b)
notify the Regulator in the manner approved by the Regulator for the purposes
of this regulation.