New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PORT KEMBLA INNER HARBOUR CONSTRUCTION AND AGREEMENT RATIFICATION ACT 1955 - SECT 6

6 Provision for closing public road

(1) The Minister, in respect of such portion or portions of the lands within the port boundaries delineated on the plan as are at the commencement of this Act used or dedicated as a public road, is empowered to close by notice in the Gazette the whole of that portion or those portions or such part or parts of that portion or those portions as he shall from time to time deem necessary for the purposes of the work described in Part One of the First Schedule to this Act and upon publication in the Gazette of any such notice any and every dedication of the lands described in the notice for public road shall absolutely cease and determine and the rights of any person to use the lands so described or any part thereof for the purposes of a road shall be extinguished and the lands so described shall vest in the Minister as constructing authority for the purposes of the said work.

(2) No claim against the Minister, whether as a constructing authority or otherwise, for compensation shall arise from or in respect of anything done by him pursuant to subsection one of this section or from or in respect of the vesting pursuant to that subsection of any land in the Minister as constructing authority for the purposes of the said work.