SCHEDULE 1 - Consequential Amendments

Section 12

Boundary Fences Act 1908

1.    After section 7 , the following section is inserted in Part I:

7A.     Act not to apply to rail corridors

(1)  In this section –

Rail Infrastructure Manager has the same meaning as in the Rail Infrastructure Act 2007 ;

Rail Infrastructure Owner has the same meaning as in the Rail Infrastructure Act 2007 ;

rail network has the same meaning as in the Rail Infrastructure Act 2007 .

(2)  Except as provided by or under the Rail Infrastructure Act 2007 or the Rail Safety Act 1997 , neither a Rail Infrastructure Owner nor a Rail Infrastructure Manager is liable to make any contribution towards the erection or repair of any dividing fence between any part of the rail network and the land of any occupier of land adjoining that part of the rail network.

Rail Infrastructure Act 2007

1.    Schedule 1 is amended by inserting after item 7 in Part 1 the following items:

8.    The "Melba Line" also known as the "Emu Bay Railway" (being the railway running from the port at the City of Burnie on Emu Bay to Melba Flats).

9.    The line known as the "Hellyer Spur" (being the railway running from the Hellyer Mine site to the eastern boundary of the Melba Line at Moory Junction).