ROADS (OPENING AND CLOSING) ACT 1991 - SECT 20

ROADS (OPENING AND CLOSING) ACT 1991 - SECT 20

20—Deposit of documents after making road process order

        (1)         The council must, within three months after a road process order is made, deposit at the Adelaide office of the Surveyor-General—

            (a)         two copies of the order; and

            (b)         survey plans as required by the Registrar-General for the purposes of this section; and

            (c)         in the case of an order for a road closure that includes an order that land be transferred or added to other land in accordance with an agreement for exchange or transfer—a copy of the agreement for transfer or exchange on which is denoted all stamp duty payable in respect of the agreement; and

            (d)         in the case of an order for a road opening or the narrowing of a road—a statement that the order complies with the requirements of Part 8 as to the minimum width of roads; and

            (e)         any other document required by the Surveyor-General; and

            (f)         any fee prescribed by regulation including any fee required to be paid by a person in whom land or an interest in land would be vested on publication in the Gazette of notice of the order and its confirmation by the Minister.

        (2)         If the requirements of subsection (1) are not complied with within the period specified in that subsection, the order may not be confirmed by the Minister and the road process lapses.

        (3)         Where a road process lapses by virtue of subsection (2), the council must, as soon as practicable, give notice in writing of that fact—

            (a)         to any person who made an objection or application in relation to the proposed road process pursuant to Division 1; and

            (b)         in addition, in the case of a proposed road opening—to any person who has an interest in land over which a road was proposed to be opened.