Dáil debates
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
Railway Safety Bill 2001: From the Seanad.
4:00 pm
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
This amendment inserts a new subsection (5) in section 111 which relates to the offence of dangerous working on a railway. This new subsection is based on section 53(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1961. This allows a jury to find a person charged with dangerous working guilty of the lesser offence of careless working under section 110. This gives the system useful and appropriate flexibility and leniency.
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