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Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003
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#### 23 Transport safety matters
(1) Each of the following occurrences involving a transport vehicle is a transport safety matter for the purposes of this Act:
(a) the transport vehicle is destroyed;
(b) the transport vehicle is damaged;
(c) the transport vehicle is abandoned, disabled, stranded or missing in operation;
(d) a person dies as a result of an occurrence associated with the operation of the transport vehicle;
(e) a person is injured or incapacitated as a result of an occurrence associated with the operation of the transport vehicle;
(f) any property is damaged as a result of an occurrence associated with the operation of the transport vehicle;
(g) the transport vehicle is involved in a near‑accident;
(h) the transport vehicle is involved in an occurrence that affected, or could have affected, the safety of the operation of the transport vehicle.
Other matters
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a transport safety matter also includes something that occurred that affected, is affecting, or might affect, transport safety.