6Declaration of strategic infrastructure corridor

6 Declaration of strategic infrastructure corridor

(1)  The Minister, by notice (a corridor notice), may declare to be a strategic infrastructure corridor an area of land that is designated on a CPR plan to be land within a corridor.

(2)  An area of land may only be declared in a corridor notice to be a strategic infrastructure corridor if the land –

(a) formed part of the rail network; or

(b) was land associated with the land that formed part of the rail network.

(3)  For the purposes of this section, land formed part of the rail network if, at any time during the period –

(a) beginning on the day on which Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Rail Infrastructure Act 2007 came into force; and

(b) ending on the day on which this section commences –

the land was land on which any of the railways specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Rail Infrastructure Act 2007 , as in force during that period, were situated.

(4)  The Minister, by notice, may designate an area of land, specified in the notice, to be land associated with the land that formed part of the rail network.

(5)  The Minister may only designate under subsection (4) land to be land associated with the land that formed part of the rail network if –

(a) the land adjoins an area of land that formed part of the rail network; and

(b) the land is not –

(i) reserved land within the meaning of the Nature Conservation Act 2002 ; or

(ii) permanent timber production zone land within the meaning of the Forest Management Act 2013 .