Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Newcastle Light Rail) Regulation 2017 (NSW)

New South Wales

Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Newcastle Light Rail) Regulation 2017

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 and the

Minister administering the Road Transport Act 2013, 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 Newcastle Light Rail system. section 119 (the general regulation-making power).
Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Newcastle

Light Rail) Regulation 2017

under the

Transport Administration Act 1988

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Newcastle
Light Rail) Regulation 2017.

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

Clause 82B

Insert after clause 82A:

82B

Declaration of Newcastle Light Rail System

(1) For the purposes of section 104N (2) of the Act, the route from the Wickham Transport Interchange to Zaara Street, Newcastle, as shown edged heavy black on the map marked “Section 104N Light Rail System Declaration Newcastle Light Rail”, deposited in the head office of Transport for NSW, and generally passing along the former heavy rail corridor from the Wickham Transport Interchange, then along Hunter Street, Newcastle, and Scott Street, Newcastle, including the roads, road related areas and other land, so shown on the map, is declared to be the route of a light rail system.

Note 1. The route passes along or through Cooper Street, Stewart Avenue, Hannell Street, Beresford Street, Honeysuckle Drive, Bellevue Street, Steel Street, Worth Place, Civic Lane, Hunter Street, Auckland Street, Merewether Street, Darby Street, Argyle Street, Crown Street, Scott Street, Wolfe Street, Market Street, Newcomen Street, Bolton Street, Watt Street, Pacific Street, Telford Street and Zaara Street.

Note 2. 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 the rail corridor and 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.