The Economic Regulation of Transport Act, 2024 (Act No. 6 of 2024)Chapter 2 : Access to Rail Infrastructure6. Types of access requests and access fees |
(1) | The following types of access requests may be regulated: |
(a) | use of infrastructure that has been determined in terms of section 4, to run trains; |
(b) | requests to physically interconnect infrastructure with infrastructure that has been determined in terms of section 4; or |
(c) | requests to make investments in order to increase the capacity of infrastructure that has been determined in terms of section 4, where the owner of the said infrastructure has declined to make the requested investment to the requested specifications. |
(2) | The Regulator must prescribe reasonable fees for the processing of access applications, and different fees may be set depending on the type of access requested, and the size and complexity of the access request. |