Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Light Rail) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Transport Administration (General)

Amendment (Light Rail) Regulation 2015

under the

Transport Administration Act 1988

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister administering the Transport Administration Act 1988, the Minister administering the Road Transport Act 2013 and the Minister for the Environment, has made the following Regulation under the Transport Administration Act 1988.

ANDREW CONSTANCE, MP

Minister for Transport and Infrastructure

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to declare the route of the CBD and South East light rail system. section 119 (the general regulation-making power).
Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Light Rail)

Regulation 2015

under the

Transport Administration Act 1988

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Light Rail)
Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Transport Administration
(General) Regulation 2013

Part 7A

Insert after Part 7:

Part 7A Light rail systems

82A

Declaration of CBD and South East light rail system

(1) For the purposes of section 104N (2) of the Act, the route from Circular Quay to Randwick and Kingsford, via Surry Hills and Moore Park, as shown edged heavy black on the map marked “Section 104N Light Rail System Declaration CBD and South East Light Rail”, deposited in the head office of Transport for NSW, and generally passing along, under or through the roads, road related areas and other land, including land at the former Rozelle Rail Yards, so shown on the map, is declared to be the route of a light rail system.

Note.

1       The route passes along, under or through Alfred Street, George Street, Rawson Place, Eddy Avenue, Elizabeth Street, Chalmers Street, Devonshire Street, Anzac Parade, Alison Road, Wansey Road, High Street and Belmore Road.

2       It also passes along, under or through Wimbo Park, Moore Park, Centennial Park and High Cross Park.

3       Once a light rail route is declared the light rail system includes tracks, catenaries, supports for tracks and catenaries, stops, access to stops, signalling and other control facilities, vehicles, vehicle depots and other facilities and equipment associated with the provision of light rail services (see section 104N (1) of the Act). Other associated facilities may include stabling facilities and substations.

(2)	Transport for NSW is to publish a copy of that map in the Gazette at the same time as, or as soon as practicable after, the commencement of this clause.
(3)	The route of the light rail system includes the following:
(a) the full width of any road that the route follows,

Note. A road is defined under the Act to include a road related area. A road related area includes a footpath or nature strip adjacent to a road, so that the route includes all the land from a road included in the route to the nearest property boundary.

(b)	the stratum above and below the surface area of land as shown on that map,
(c)	the area of any bridge, viaduct or other support over which the route passes,
(d)	the area of any tunnel through which the route passes,
(e)	any light rail structure in a tunnel through which the route passes.