1964_KOWLOON-CANTON_RAILWAY_CORPORATION_REGULATIONS — Page 7

1987 Ed.]

Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Regulations

[CAP. 372

A 7

[Subsidiary]

[reg. 3.]

SCHEDULE

NOTIFIABLE OCCURRENCES

PART I

Occurrences directly affecting persons

1. Any accident connected with the operation of the railway or with the maintenance thereof, not being an accident which is notifiable under regulation 2, as a result of which an employee of the Corporation or of a contractor with the Corporation is unable, for a period exceeding 3 days immediately after the accident, to fully carry out his normal duties.

2. Any occurrence, not coming within paragraph 1, in which a person--

(a) falls off a platform or crosses a line whether or not he is struck by a train;

(b) falls out of a carriage during the running of a train;

(c) falls between a train and a platform;

(d) comes into contact with live overhead electric traction wires or other live electrical equipment;

(e) suffers injury, which is reported to the Corporation, by the opening or closing of carriage doors at a station or by the operation of an escalator, lift or moving path used by the public as part of the railway;

(f) suffers injury, which is reported to the Corporation, as the result of any action of an employee of the Corporation, or of a contractor with the Corporation.

PART II

Occurrences affecting railway premises, plant and equipment

1. Any failure of an axle, wheel or tyre on a train, including tyres unfit to run.

2. Any failure of any part of a power unit on a train which endangers or could endanger the safe operation of the railway.

3. Any fire, severe electrical arcing or fusing on a train or on any part of the railway or on any part of the railway premises or on premises occupied or used by the Corporation in the running of the railway.

4. Any accidental division of a train.

5. Any fracture of a rail in the permanent way.

6. Any buckling of a running track.

7. Any failure of a tunnel, bridge or elevated section or any part of the same which endangers or could endanger the safe operation of the railway.

8. Any flooding of any part of the permanent way which endangers or could endanger the safe operation of the railway.

9. The loss of control of any passenger escalator, lift or moving path.

10. Any failure of a signal structure or of any part of the fixed electrical equipment which endangers or could endanger the safe operation of the railway.

11. The accidental entry of any road vehicle on to the permanent way.

12. Any other failure of the permanent way or of any machinery, plant or equipment which endangers or could endanger the safe operation of the railway.