NATIONAL ROADS ACT 1974 No. 52, 1974 - SECT 5 Standards for national roads.

NATIONAL ROADS ACT 1974 No. 52, 1974 - SECT 5

5. (1) For the purpose of ensuring that this Act is conducive to the
construction and maintenance of national roads that are of an adequate
standard, the Minister may, from time to time-

   (a)  request a State to furnish such information as the Minister specifies
        relating to the use or likely use of national roads, including the
        effect on the likely use of national roads of projects that the State
        is carrying out or proposes to carry out by way of the construction or
        maintenance of other roads in the State;

   (b)  after consultation with a State, notify to the State works, or classes
        of works, by way of construction and maintenance of the national roads
        in the State that the Australian Government considers necessary to be
        carried out;

   (c)  notify to a State the order in which the Australian Government
        considers that works in connexion with national roads in the State
        should be carried out; and

   (d)  notify to a State standards, applicable either generally or otherwise
        as specified in the notification, that the Australian Government
        considers necessary to be observed in connexion with the construction
        or maintenance of national roads.

(2) The Minister may vary or revoke a notification forwarded to a State in
accordance with sub-section (1).