Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) A magistrate shall not make a local highway order under section 16 or 17 unless he is satisfied that, at least 28 days before the making of the application for the order, a notice of the intention to make the application –
(a) has been served on each of the owners and occupiers affected and, unless the corporation is the applicant, on the corporation;
(b) has been servedon the Transport Commission;
(c) has been displayed in a prominent position at each end of the highway to which the application relates; and
(d) has been published twice in separate issues of a local newspaper circulating in the municipality in which the highway is situated.
(2) A notice referred to in subsection (1) shall specify the time and place at which the application is to be made and the terms of the order applied for, embodying a map or plan showing its effect.
(3) A notice required to be published in a newspaper may, instead of containing such a map or plan as is referred to in subsection (2), contain a statement of a place in the municipality in which the highway is situated where the plan may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours.
(4) On the hearing of an application for a local highway order to which this section relates, the following persons have a right to be heard:
(a) the corporation;
(b) the person making the application;
(c) an interested person.