Railway Safety Act — R-4.2 4
Definitions 4 (1) In this Act, Agency means the Canadian Transportation Agency continued by section 7 of the Canada Transportation Act ; ( Office ) alter [Repealed, 1999, c. 9, s. 2] authorized screening means anything authorized or required to be done under the regulations or a security document for the control, observation, inspection and search of persons or goods to prevent the unauthorized possession or carriage of weapons, explosives and incendiaries on railway works and railway equipment; ( contrôle ) company means a railway company or a local railway company; ( compagnie ) crossing work means a road crossing or a utility crossing; ( ouvrage de franchissement ) engineering standards means engineering standards established pursuant to section 7; ( normes techniques ) fatigue science [Repealed, 2015, c. 31, s. 17] goods means, except in the definition utility line , anything that may be taken or placed on board railway equipment as freight, baggage or personal belongings; ( biens ) highest level of safety means the lowest acceptable level of risk as demonstrated by a risk management analysis; ( niveau de sécurité le plus élevé ) line work means (a) a line of railway, including any structure supporting or protecting that line of railway or providing for drainage thereof, (b) a system of switches, signals or other like devices that facilitates railway operations, or (c) any other structure built across, beside, under or over a line of railway, that facilitates railway operations, but does not include a crossing work; ( ligne de chemin de fer ) local railway company means a person, other than a railway company or an agent or mandatary of a railway company, that operates railway equipment on a railway; ( compagnie de chemin de fer locale ) Minister means the Minister of Transport; ( ministre ) person includes a government of a municipality and a road authority; ( personne ) prescribed means prescribed by regulations; ( Version anglaise seulement ) proponent , in relation to a railway work, means the person who proposes, or has proposed, the construction or alteration of the railway work, whether voluntarily or because of a requirement imposed under another Act or by an order made under section 32.01; ( promoteur ) proposing party [Repealed, 1999, c. 9, s. 2] railway means a railway within the legislative authority of Parliament and includes (a) branches, extensions, sidings, railway bridges, tunnels, stations, depots, wharfs, rolling stock, equipment, stores or other things connected with the railway, and (b) communications or signalling systems and related facilities and equipment used for railway purposes; ( chemin de fer ) railway company means a person that constructs, operates or maintains a railway; ( compagnie de chemin de fer ) railway equipment means (a) a machine that is constructed for movement exclusively on lines of railway, whether or not the machine is capable of independent motion, or (b) a vehicle that is constructed for movement both on and off lines of railway while the adaptations of that vehicle for movement on lines of railway are in use; ( matériel ferroviaire ou train ) railway work means a line work or any part thereof, a crossing work or any part thereof, or any combination of the foregoing; ( installations ferroviaires ) relevant association or organization , in relation to a railway company, means an association or organization that has been formed to represent the interests of (a) persons employed by that railway company, or (b) persons owning or leasing railway equipment that is used on lines of railway operated by that railway company and that is declared by order of the Minister to be a relevant association or organization in relation to that railway company; ( organisation intéressée ) restricted area means an area that is established under the regulations or a security document and to which access is restricted to authorized persons; ( zone réglementée ) road means any way or course, whether