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Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003

Document Summary

The act which established the RAIB as the primary investigator of railway accidents.

Please note that this Act is presented in its original form as passed. This Act may have been amended by subsequent legislation. For details of amendments please see the UK Statute Law Database at www.statutelaw.gov.uk.

This document was published in 2003 by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

It was written by Her Majesty's Government.

The original document format was HTML, and comprised 200 pages.The original document can be found here.

This document was kindly sourced from Her Majesty's Stationery Office and is in our Primary legislation collection. It was added to the Archive on 18th November 2004.

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"The Rail Accident Investigation Branch

Establishment
(1) The Secretary of State shall appoint persons as inspectors of rail accidents.
(2) The Secretary of State shall appoint one of the inspectors as the Chief Inspector of Rail Accidents.
(3) The inspectors appointed under this section may be referred to as the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (being a branch of the department of the Secretary of State who appoints them).
(4) An inspector of rail accidents shall carry out such of the functions of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch as may be assigned to him by the Chief Inspector of Rail Accidents.

General aims

In exercising their functions the Rail Accident Investigation Branch shall, wherever relevant, aim-
(a) to improve the safety of railways, and
(b) to prevent railway accidents and railway incidents."

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