Western Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS BY-LAWS -- BY-LAW 79 - REG 7

7 .         Periods of examination

                Periods of examination of employees in the Service — All employees specified in Classes 5 to 7, inclusive, shall be re-examined: — 

            (a)         Every four years, except locomotive engine-drivers, acting drivers, motormen, and signalmen, whose re-examination must be conducted every two years.

                (When, however a locomotive engine-driver or fireman or motorman has passed a signal which is said to have been set in the danger position, but which he alleges was not at danger, he must be sent to the Medical Officer for examination as soon as possible after such occurrence.)

            (b)         On transfer from a Branch, for which a lower standard of vision and hearing is prescribed, for entrance to the service to a branch with a higher entrance standard, the officer or employee must pass the standard fixed for entrance into the service for the particular Branch to which he is transferred.

            (c)         On promotion to the position of locomotive engine-driver, or to the position of signalman (signalmen on appointment to conform to the standard 6/12, 6/12, 6/9, without glasses).

            (d)         Immediately after any railway accident in which an officer or employee is concerned, or after any personal injury or sickness, which may be likely to impair the vision or hearing.

            (e)         If there is reason to suppose that the vision, colour-sense, or hearing of an employee has deteriorated, subsequent to the date of his last examination, he must be sent for re-examination irrespective of the date on which he was last examined.