137Reports on transport safety investigations

137 Reports on transport safety investigations

137 Reports on transport safety investigations

(1) The Chief Investigator must provide to the Minister a written report on a transport safety investigation, including any discontinued investigation.

(2) The Chief Investigator may provide a copy of a draft report, or proposed recommendations in a report, on a confidential basis, to the Minister or any other person before completing the report—

(a) if the Chief Investigator thinks that it is desirable or necessary to do so for the purposes of transport safety, or

(b) to allow the making of submissions about the draft report, or

(c) to give advance notice of the likely form of the report.

(3) The Chief Investigator may include in a report on a transport safety investigation any submissions made in response to a draft report or draft recommendations, safety action statements or safety recommendations.

(4) If the Chief Investigator discontinues an investigation, the Chief Investigator must provide to the Minister, within 28 days, a written report setting out the reasons for discontinuing the investigation and a report on the investigation.

(5) In this section—

safety action statement means a statement—

(a) setting out any safety issues identified during the course of an investigation that should be addressed, or

(b) setting out any steps taken by persons to remedy safety issues identified during the course of an investigation.