Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act:
"adjoining owner" means an owner in fee simple of land, or a lessee of Crown lands, of land which is contiguous to, or affected by, land comprising a road, or a part of a road.
"attached", in relation to the connection between a prime mover and a trailer, includes connected indirectly through another trailer.
"pneumatic tyre" means a tyre consisting of a flexible elastic shell inflated with air, with or without an inner tube.
"rigid", as applied to a vehicle, means that the longitudinal axis of the vehicle cannot deviate from a straight line in a horizontal direction.
"road" means:
(a) all streets, roads, courts, alleys, thoroughfares and culs-de-sac which were, immediately before the date when this Act comes into operation, public streets, roads, courts, alleys, thoroughfares, or culs-de-sac within the meaning of any law then in force in the Northern Territory; or
(c) land which, whether before or after the date when this Act comes into operation:
(i) is proclaimed, dedicated, resumed or otherwise established as a public street, road or thoroughfare; or
(ii) is opened as a road or is declared to be a road by the Minister pursuant to this Act; or
(iii) is reserved or left as a road in a subdivision of Crown land; or
(iv) is conveyed or transferred to the Territory in fee simple and is accepted by the Territory as a road; or
(v) not being Crown land leased for purposes which include the construction of a road at the expense of the lessee, is used as a thoroughfare passing through or over Crown land whether alienated or otherwise.
"Surveyor-General", see section 4 of the Licensed Surveyors Act .
"width" means:
(a) in relation to a vehicle, including an articulated vehicle:
(i) in the case of a vehicle to which a trailer is attached, the distance from one side of the vehicle, the trailer, a projecting part of the vehicle, the trailer or the load of the vehicle or trailer, to the other side of the vehicle, the trailer, a projecting part of the vehicle, the trailer or load of the vehicle or trailer, whichever is the greatest; or
(ii) in any other case, the distance from one side of the vehicle, a projecting part of the vehicle or its load, to the other side of the vehicle, a projecting part of the vehicle or its load, whichever is the greatest; or
(b) in relation to a tyre, the width of the surface of the tyre which ordinarily comes into contact with the surface of the road; or
(c) in relation to tyres on a group of co-axial wheels on one side of the longitudinal centre line of a vehicle, the sum of the widths of the surfaces of those tyres which ordinarily come into contact with the surface of the road.
(2) For Parts 3 and 4, road does not include a road that is under the care, control and management of a council under the Local Government Act .