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6 PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“accident” means an accident associated with the operation of a transport vehicle involving circumstances prescribed;

“accident site” means any premises associated with an occurrence involving a transport vehicle, and includes—
 * (a) premises containing the transport vehicle or any of its wreckage;
 * (b) premises where there is an impact point associated with an accident involving the transport vehicle;
 * (c) if the accident involved destruction or serious damage to property (other than the transport vehicle)—premises containing the damaged property or any of its remains or wreckage; and
 * (d) such area around those premises as the Director determines to be reasonably necessary to facilitate the investigation of the occurrence and securing the premises for the purposes of the investigation;

“accident site premises” means—
 * (a) an accident site; or
 * (b) premises that it is necessary to enter in order to get to an accident site;

“aircraft” means any machine that can derive support from the atmosphere from the reactions of the air otherwise than by the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth, and includes an unmanned aircraft;