MAIN ROADS ACT 1930 - SECT 20

MAIN ROADS ACT 1930 - SECT 20

20 .         Commissioner to provide access to roads from adjoining land in certain cases

        (1)         Subject to the provisions of section 28A where the Commissioner, in reconstructing an existing road or building a new road, prejudicially affects the access to a property having a frontage thereto, the Commissioner shall at his own expense provide reasonable access to the reconstructed or new road.

        (2)         If in carrying out the provision of subsection (1) it becomes necessary for the Commissioner to acquire any land belonging to a private owner, the expense of so doing shall be borne by the person requiring such access.

        (3)         Before any such land is so acquired, the Commissioner shall give at least 21 days’ notice of his intention to acquire, and in the event of the person requiring such access dissenting from his so doing, the Commissioner’s responsibility under subsection (1) shall cease.

        [Section 20 amended: No. 34 of 1952 s. 4; No. 19 of 2010 s. 63(5).]