Non-Metropolitan Railways (Transfer) Act 1997

The SAR Land and the Commonwealth Railways Land, when transferred to the State under the Railways Agreement, vests in the Minister for an estate of fee simple.

However, this section does not operate to extinguish the interests of a third party in the land.

The Registrar-General must, on application by the Minister—

if land vested in the Minister under this Act has been brought under the Real Property Act 1886—register the Minister as the proprietor of an estate in fee simple in the land; or

if land vested in the Minister under this Act has not been brought under the Real Property Act 1886—bring the land under the provisions of that Act and register the Minister as the proprietor of an estate in fee simple in the land.

The Minister must provide the Registrar-General with surveys and plans of land that is to be brought under the Real Property Act 1886 that the Registrar-General may reasonably require.

The Crown Lands Act 1929 does not apply in relation to land vested in the Minister under this Act.