9Principle of shared responsibility

9 Principle of shared responsibility

(1) The safe operation of bus services is the shared responsibility of—

(a) the operator; and

(b) bus safety workers; and

(c) procurers; and

(d) persons who determine the location of bus stopping points, or who design, construct, install, modify or maintain a bus stopping point or bus stop infrastructure; and

S. 9(1)(e) amended by No. 34/2023 s. 127(Sch. 1 item 1.4).

(e) Safe Transport Victoria; and

(f) members of the public.

(2) The level and nature of responsibility that a person referred to in subsection (1), or a person within a class of persons referred to in subsection (1), has for bus safety is dependent on—

(a) the nature of the risk to bus safety that the person creates from the carrying out of an activity or the making of a decision; and

(b) the capacity that that person has to control, eliminate or mitigate that risk or any other risk to bus safety.