STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 161 Power as to roads

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 161

161 Power as to roads

(1) This section applies if a rearrangement of roads is required to be made for the undertaking of works by the Coordinator-General or for the implementation of an approved development scheme.

(2) The Coordinator-General may, by gazette notice, do 1 or more of the following—

(a) permanently or temporarily close all or part of an existing road;

(b) open and construct new roads;

(c) increase the width of a road;

(d) divert a road.

(3) The Coordinator-General may also—

(a) make surveys for new roads; and

(b) raise or lower the soil of a road.

(4) Before the closure of all or part of a road takes effect, the Coordinator-General must publish, in a newspaper circulating in the relevant local government area, a notice about the closure.

(5) Failure to comply with subsection (4) does not invalidate the closure.

(6) The Coordinator-General may do everything necessary to stop traffic using a road or part of a road closed under subsection (2) (a) .

(7) If all or part of a road is permanently closed, the land comprising the road or part of the road may be—

(a) used for the works being undertaken by the Coordinator-General or for the implementation of the approved development scheme; or

(b) otherwise disposed of.

(8) To remove any doubt, it is declared that this section applies—

(a) whether or not a road is a State-controlled road under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 ; and

(b) whether or not the Land Act 1994 applies to a road.