Strategic Infrastructure Corridors (Strategic and Recreational Use) Act 2016

Despite any other provision of this Act, including section 84(1), a corridor manager may not remove, or authorise the removal of, railway track from – a corridor; or a part of a road that extends between parts of a corridor – unless the Minister has issued, to the corridor manager, a notice (a railway track removal notice) in relation to the railway track.

The Minister may only issue a railway track removal notice in relation to railway track if the Minister is satisfied that – it is not reasonably practicable, or would be unreasonably costly, for the designated recreational use to occur on land within the corridor, other than the land on which the railway track is situated; and the removal of the railway track is reasonably necessary for the purposes of enabling the use, or the safe use, of the corridor for the designated recreational use in relation to the corridor.