New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CENTENNIAL PARK AND MOORE PARK TRUST ACT 1983 - SECT 15H

15H Grant of temporary licences for construction purposes

(1) For the purposes of the carrying out of road work or traffic control work connected with the Eastern Distributor, the Trust is, as directed from time to time by the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Roads, required to grant licences to the Roads and Traffic Authority, on such terms and conditions as are determined by those Ministers, for the use of any part of the land referred to in Schedule 3A for the carrying out of such works.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a licence may be granted under this section in respect of land referred to in Schedule 3A for the following purposes:

(a) the use of the land for a bypass road,

(b) the use of the land for a construction site compound, including its use for employees’ amenities, the storage of machinery and materials and parking and its use for other activities related to the construction of the Eastern Distributor (such as the dewatering of excavations and other works related to the preservation of the water table),

(c) carrying out inspections of works on the land,

(d) cleaning any works, buildings or other structures on the land,

(e) any purpose ancillary to a purpose specified in paragraphs (a)-(d).

(3) The Trust is, as directed from time to time by the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Roads, required to grant licences to the Roads and Traffic Authority, on such terms and conditions as are determined by those Ministers, for the use of any part of the land shown hatched brown on the plan for the following purposes:

(a) the installation, maintenance, repair, removal or replacement of temporary soil nails or temporary rock anchors beneath the surface of the land for the purposes of the Eastern Distributor,

(b) any purpose ancillary to a purpose specified in paragraph (a).

(4) A licence granted under this section may not have a term that, together with the term of any other licence granted for the same purposes under this section, exceeds 5 years.

(5) A licence granted under this section may permit the Roads and Traffic Authority to assign to a person or body involved in the operation of the Eastern Distributor, or an associated activity, any of the rights, functions or entitlements conferred on the Authority by the licence.

(6) The Trust may not revoke or vary a licence granted under this section, except with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Roads.

(7) The Roads and Traffic Authority may, by notice published in the Gazette, dedicate any part of the land subject to a licence under this section as a public road.

(8) On publication of the notice, the land is dedicated as a public road for the purposes of the Roads Act 1993 until the end of the last of any licences under this section affecting the land, or the notice is revoked by notice published in the Gazette by the Roads and Traffic Authority, whichever occurs first.