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A Bill for an Act to prioritise Commonwealth funding of rail projects identified by Infrastructure Australia, and for related purposes
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Registered 28 May 2013
Introduced HR 27 May 2013
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2010‑2011‑2012‑2013

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Infrastructure (Priority Funding) Amendment Bill 2013

 

No.      , 2013

 

(Mr Bandt)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to prioritise Commonwealth funding of rail projects identified by Infrastructure Australia, and for related purposes

  

  


Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                3

Infrastructure Australia Act 2008                                                                            3

 


A Bill for an Act to prioritise Commonwealth funding of rail projects identified by Infrastructure Australia, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Infrastructure (PriorityFunding) Amendment Act 2013.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

Infrastructure Australia Act 2008

1  After section 5

Insert:

5A  Commonwealth funding to give priority to rail projects on Infrastructure Priority Lists

             (1)  The Minister must ensure that infrastructure projects that relate to rail and are included on an Infrastructure Priority List as ready to proceed are given priority for Commonwealth funding over any infrastructure project that relates to roads (other than an exempt road project).

             (2)  An exempt road project is a road project:

                     (a)  designed to address an urgent or significant road safety issue; or

                     (b)  on which construction has already begun at the time this Act commences.