Section 43: Transport safety matters

(1) Transportation occurrences involving a transport vehicle is a transport safety matter, where -
(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) 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; or
(h) the transport vehicle is involved in an occurrence that affected, or could have affected, the safety of the operation of the transport vehicle.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a transport safety matter also includes something that occurred, affected, is affecting or might affect, transport safety.