ROADS (OPENING AND CLOSING) ACT 1991 - SECT 38

ROADS (OPENING AND CLOSING) ACT 1991 - SECT 38

38—Width of roads

        (1)         Subject to this section, no road opened pursuant to this Act may be less than 12 metres wide in any place and no road may be closed in part so that it is less than 12 metres wide in any place.

        (2)         The Surveyor-General may, by instrument in writing—

            (a)         declare that the minimum width fixed by this section does not apply to any specified road; and

            (b)         fix a minimum width for that road that is less than the minimum width otherwise required by this section.

        (3)         Any road opened pursuant to this Act may be continued at a width of less than 12 metres if the continuation is at least of the same width as the road so continued.

        (4)         For the purpose of this section, the width of a road is the shortest distance from one boundary of the road to the opposite boundary.