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Australian Capital Territory
Rail Safety National Law (ACT)
Regulation 2014
SL2014-29
made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014
Republication No 4
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About this republication
The republished law
This is a republication of the Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014, made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014 (including any amendment made under the Legislation
Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes)) as in force on 29 July 2025. It also includes any
commencement, amendment, repeal or expiry affecting this republished law to 29 July 2025.
The legislation history and amendment history of the republished law are set out in endnotes 3
and 4.
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changes are made if the Parliamentary Counsel considers they are desirable to bring the law into
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This republication does not include amendments made under part 11.3 (see endnote 1).
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Australian Capital Territory
Rail Safety National Law (ACT)
Regulation 2014
made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014
Contents
Page
1 Name of regulation 2
3 Alcohol screening device—Act, s 10, def alcohol screening device,
par (b) 2
4 Drug screening device—Act, s 10, def drug screening device, par (b) 2
5 Oral fluid analysis instrument—Act, s 10, def oral fluid analysis
instrument, par (b) 2
5A Conduct of breath analysis—requirements for statement or notice—
Act, s 15 (6) and (7) 2
6 Oral fluid analysis of sample from worker in custody—requirements for
statement—Act, s 21 (4) 3
Endnotes
Contents
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1 About the endnotes 4
2 Abbreviation key 4
3 Legislation history 5
4 Amendment history 5
5 Earlier republications 6
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Australian Capital Territory
Rail Safety National Law (ACT)
Regulation 2014
made under the
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Act 2014
Section 1
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1 Name of regulation
This regulation is the Rail Safety National Law (ACT)
Regulation 2014.
3 Alcohol screening device—Act, s 10, def alcohol
screening device, par (b)
The AlcoQuant 6020 is prescribed.
4 Drug screening device—Act, s 10, def drug screening
device, par (b)
The following devices are prescribed:
(a) Clonal Technologies Oral Fluid Drug Test 7;
(b) MedVet Oral7;
(c) Oranoxis ToxWipe Oral 7+.
5 Oral fluid analysis instrument—Act, s 10, def oral fluid
analysis instrument, par (b)
The Shimadzu High Performance Liquid Chromatograph Mass
Spectrometer LCMS-8060 is prescribed.
5A Conduct of breath analysis—requirements for statement
or notice—Act, s 15 (6) and (7)
(1) For the Act, section 15 (6), a written statement given to a rail safety
worker in relation to an analysis of the worker’s breath must include
the following:
(a) for the authorised person who carried out the breath analysis—
the person’s—
(i) name or service number; and
(ii) signature;
Section 6
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(b) if the worker was taken into custody under the Act, section 14,
to undertake the breath analysis—the service number and
signature of the police officer who took the worker into custody;
(c) the particulars mentioned in the Road Transport (Alcohol and
Drugs) Regulation 2000, schedule 1, other than item 4 and
item 5.
(2) For the Act, section 15 (7), a written notice is taken to have been given
to a rail safety worker in relation to an analysis of the worker’s breath
if a written statement mentioned in subsection (1) has been given to
the worker in relation to the analysis.
6 Oral fluid analysis of sample from worker in custody—
requirements for statement—Act, s 21 (4)
The particulars mentioned in the Road Transport (Alcohol and
Drugs) Regulation 2000, schedule 2 are required to be included in a
statement mentioned in the Act, section 21 (4).
Endnotes
1 About the endnotes
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Endnotes
1 About the endnotes
Amending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the
amendment history. Current modifications are not included in the republished law
but are set out in the endnotes.
Not all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are
annotated in the amendment history. Full details of any amendments can be
obtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Uncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law. The details
of these laws are underlined in the legislation history. Uncommenced expiries are
underlined in the legislation history and amendment history.
If all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered
provisions gives details of previous and current numbering.
The endnotes also include a table of earlier republications.
2 Abbreviation key
A = Act NI = Notifiable instrument
AF = Approved form o = order
am = amended om = omitted/repealed
amdt = amendment ord = ordinance
AR = Assembly resolution orig = original
ch = chapter par = paragraph/subparagraph
CN = Commencement notice pres = present
def = definition prev = previous
DI = Disallowable instrument (prev...) = previously
dict = dictionary pt = part
disallowed = disallowed by the Legislative r = rule/subrule
Assembly reloc = relocated
div = division renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired R[X] = Republication No
Gaz = gazette RI = reissue
hdg = heading s = section/subsection
IA = Interpretation Act 1967 sch = schedule
ins = inserted/added sdiv = subdivision
LA = Legislation Act 2001 SL = Subordinate law
LR = legislation register sub = substituted
LRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 underlining = whole or part not commenced
mod = modified/modification or to be expired
Endnotes
Legislation history 3
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3 Legislation history
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Regulation 2014 SL2014-29
notified LR 17 November 2014
s 1, s 2 commenced 17 November 2014 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 20 November 2014 (s 2 and see Rail Safety
National Law (ACT) Act 2014 A2014-14, s 2 and LA s 79)
as amended by
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Amendment Regulation 2017
SL2017-2
notified LR 23 February 2017
s 1, s 2 commenced 23 February 2017 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 24 February 2017 (s 2)
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Amendment Regulation 2023 (No 1)
SL2023-3
notified LR 9 February 2023
s 1, s 2 commenced 9 February 2023 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 10 February 2023 (s 2)
Rail Safety National Law (ACT) Amendment Regulation 2025 (No 1)
SL2025-15
notified LR 28 July 2025
s 1, s 2 commenced 28 July 2025 (LA s 75 (1))
remainder commenced 29 July 2025 (s 2)
4 Amendment history
Commencement
s 2 om LA s 89 (4)
Drug screening device—Act, s 10, def drug screening device, par (b)
s 4 sub SL2025-15 s 4
Oral fluid analysis instrument—Act, s 10, def oral fluid analysis instrument,
par (b)
s 5 sub SL2023-3 s 4
Conduct of breath analysis—requirements for statement or notice—Act,
s 15 (6) and (7)
s 5A ins SL2017-2 s 4