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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Railway (Northern and Southern Urban
Extensions) Bill 1999
A Bill for
An Act to authorize the construction of a railway from Currambine
to Butler to extend the Perth-Joondalup Railway and a railway from
Jandakot to Rockingham and from Rockingham to Mandurah.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Railway (Northern and Southern
Urban Extensions) Act 1999.
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Railway (Northern and Southern Urban Extensions) Bill 1999
s. 2
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
3. Authority to construct railway (Currambine-Butler) and for
5 railway to deviate
(1) A railway, and all necessary, proper and usual works and
facilities in connection with the railway, may be constructed and
maintained along the line described in Schedule 1.
(2) Despite the deviation specified in section 96(1) of the Public
10 Works Act 1902, the railway may deviate to a distance of
2 kilometres on either side of the line described in Schedule 1.
4. Authority to construct railway
(Jandakot-Rockingham-Mandurah) and for railway to
deviate
15 (1) A railway, and all necessary, proper and usual works and
facilities in connection with the railway, may be constructed and
maintained along the line described in Schedule 2.
(2) Despite the deviation specified in section 96(1) of the Public
Works Act 1902, the railway may deviate to a distance of
20 4 kilometres on either side of the line described in Schedule 2.
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Railway (Northern and Southern Urban Extensions) Bill 1999
Line of Currambine-Butler Railway Schedule 1
Schedule 1 -- Line of Currambine-Butler Railway
[s.3]
The line of the railway commences at a point about 27.3 kilometres
along the Perth to Joondalup railway line, as described in the
5 Schedule to the Perth-Joondalup Railway Act 1989, that is just south
of Burns Beach Road, Currambine, and proceeds in a generally
north-westerly direction through a combined railway-controlled
access highway reserve for a distance of about 9 kilometres to a point,
near Australian Map Grid coordinates 378350 East and 6498000
10 North, that is just north of Lukin Drive, Butler.
The course to be taken by the railway is shown as a red line on
Department of Transport map number 1040-00-10 Rev D.
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Railway (Northern and Southern Urban Extensions) Bill 1999
Schedule 2 Line of Jandakot-Rockingham-Mandurah Railway
Schedule 2 -- Line of Jandakot-Rockingham-Mandurah
Railway
[s. 4]
The line of the railway commences at a point about 29.7 kilometres
5 along the Kewdale to Kwinana railway line, as described in the Fourth
Schedule to the Railways (Standard Gauge) Construction Act 1961,
and proceeds in a generally southerly direction along the median strip
of the Kwinana Freeway for a distance of about 15 kilometres to a
point near Australian Map Grid coordinates 391352 East and 6433947
10 North then, leaving the median strip, proceeds in a generally
south-westerly direction for a distance of about 10 kilometres to a
point near Australian Map Grid coordinates 384870 East and 6428090
North near Dixon Road, Hillman, then proceeds in a generally
southerly direction for a distance of about 29 kilometres and
15 terminates at a point near Australian Map Grid coordinates 382068
East and 6400291 North so that the overall distance from the
commencement point to the termination point is about 54 kilometres.
The course to be taken by the railway is shown as a red line on
Department of Transport map number 936-00-13.
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