Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts Section 66A is
repealed and the following section is inserted instead —
(1) If a railway or
portion of a railway that is on Crown land is no longer required for use by
the Authority, the Authority may request the Minister for Lands to make orders
in respect of the land in accordance with subsection (2).
(2) If requested under
subsection (1) by the Authority to do so, the Minister for Lands is
required to —
(a)
under the Land Administration Act 1997 section 50, order that any
management order placing the land under the care, control, and management of
the Authority is revoked;
(b) make
an order under the Land Administration Act 1997 section 51 changing
the purpose for which the land is reserved to the purposes of operating a
tourist railway; and
(c)
under the Land Administration Act 1997 section 46, place the land
under the care, control, and management of a person specified by the Authority
in its request as the operator of the tourist railway.
(3) Land in respect of
which an order is made as required by subsection (2)(a) is not a
Government railway for the purposes of this Act.
(4) If an order by
which land is placed under the care, control, and management of a person for
the purposes of operating a tourist railway is revoked and the land is again
required for use by the Authority in connection with a Government railway, the
land again becomes a part of a Government railway for the purposes of this Act
and the Authority may request the Minister for Lands to make orders in respect
of the land in accordance with subsection (5).
(5) If requested under
subsection (4) by the Authority to do so, the Minister for Lands is
required to —
(a)
make —
(i)
an order under the Land Administration Act 1997
section 51 changing the purpose for which the land is reserved to the
purposes described in section 4(a); or
(ii)
if the reserve has been cancelled, make an order under
the Land Administration Act 1997 section 41 reserving the land for
the purposes described in section 4(a);
and
(b) make
an order under the Land Administration Act 1997 section 46, placing
the land under the care, control, and management of the Authority for the
purposes described in section 4(a).
(6) In this
section —
“Minister for Lands” means the body
corporate of that name referred to in the Land Administration Act 1997
section 7(1).
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