91QRail Access Strategy

91Q Rail Access Strategy (1) The port of Melbourne operator must prepare a strategy (a ***Rail Access Strategy***) in accordance with this Part. (2) The port of Melbourne operator must prepare— (a) the first Rail Access Strategy within 3 years after the first lease of land comprising port assets is granted to a private sector entity under section 11 of the **Delivering Victorian Infrastructure (Port of Melbourne Lease Transaction) Act 2016**; and (b) every other Rail Access Strategy at the same time as it prepares a Port Development Strategy under Part 6B. (3) The port of Melbourne operator must prepare and submit a Rail Access Strategy to the Minister. (4) A Rail Access Strategy must set out— (a) options for rail infrastructure projects for improving rail access for the movement of freight into and out of the port of Melbourne; and (b) a commercial assessment of each identified option that— (i) in the case of the first Rail Access Strategy prepared under this Part, includes— (A) projections of trade through the port of Melbourne; and (B) current and projected transport infrastructure requirements for land and water in the port of Melbourne; and (ii) in the case of every other Rail Access Strategy prepared under this Part, is consistent with the applicable Port Development Strategy for the port of Melbourne; and (iii) in all cases, includes any other matter specified in the guidelines; and (c) the implementation timing for each identified option. (5) One of the options set out in the first Rail Access Strategy must be the development of a port rail shuttle. (6) Every rail infrastructure project identified as an option set out in a Rail Access Strategy must be capable of being implemented within 5 years after it has been submitted to the Minister in accordance with this section. (7) If there are guidelines in effect in respect of the form and content of a Rail Access Strategy, and the method and process for preparation of a Rail Access Strategy, the port of Melbourne operator must prepare and submit a Rail Access Strategy to the Minister in accordance with the guidelines. S. 91R inserted by No. 10/2016 s. 156. 91R Rail infrastructure project options in Rail Access Strategy are major infrastructure projects for the purposes of the Infrastructure Victoria Act 2015 A rail infrastructure project identified as an option in a Rail Access Strategy is a major infrastructure project for the purposes of section 44 of the **Infrastructure Victoria Act 2015**. S. 91S inserted by No. 10/2016 s. 156.