New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 38B

38B Functions of Sydney Metro

(1) Sydney Metro has the functions conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act.

(2) Sydney Metro may--

(a) design, construct, develop and operate a metro to provide safe, reliable and high-frequency metro passenger services, or other associated transport services, to the public, and

(b) deliver services in connection with, or related to, the operation or proposed operation of the metro, and

(c) assist the relevant planning and transport authorities in the preparation of strategic and other plans for the development of land in the locality of metro stations, depots and stabling yards, and proposed metro stations, depots and stabling yards.

(3) Sydney Metro may--

(a) conduct any business (whether or not related to its functions) that it considers will further its objectives, and

(b) operate other transport services, including bus services, whether or not in connection with its metro passenger services, and

(c) build, modify, hold, manage, maintain, finance and establish transport assets vested in or owned by it, or to be vested in or owned by it, and

(d) acquire, build, modify, hold, manage, maintain, finance and establish metro assets vested in or owned by it, or to be vested in or owned by it, and

(e) dispose of metro assets vested in or owned by it (other than a metro), and

(f) acquire, build, modify, manage, maintain and establish transport assets vested in or owned by, or to be vested in or owned by, another public transport agency, and

(g) make and enter into contracts or arrangements for the carrying out of works, or the performance of services, or the supply of goods or materials, and

(h) make and enter into contracts or arrangements with any person for the operation, on such terms as may be agreed on, of any of Sydney Metro's passenger or other transport services or of any of Sydney Metro's businesses, and

(i) make and enter into leases or licences, or other arrangements, with persons for developing metro assets, and

(j) provide goods, services or facilities to the transport industry, and

(k) appoint agents, and act as agents for other persons.

(4) Sydney Metro may--

(a) acquire any land, and

(b) develop, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any of its land, and

(c) with the consent of the owner of any land, exercise in relation to the land any function that Sydney Metro could so exercise if Sydney Metro were the owner of the land, and

(d) exercise in relation to any land in which Sydney Metro holds an interest any function that a private individual could so exercise if the private individual were the holder of the interest.

(5) The operation of any railway service by Sydney Metro is subject to the requirements of the Rail Safety National Law (NSW) .