LOCAL GOVERNMENT (UNIFORM LOCAL PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 12
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (UNIFORM LOCAL PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS 1996 - REG 12
12 . Crossing from public thoroughfare to private land or private thoroughfare — Sch. 9.1 cl. 7(2)
(1) Upon the
application of the sole owner, or a majority of the owners, of private land
the local government may, in writing and subject to
regulation 14(2) —
(a)
approve the construction, under the supervision of, and to the satisfaction
of, the local government, of a crossing giving access from a public
thoroughfare to —
(i)
the land; or
(ii)
a private thoroughfare serving the land;
or
(b)
agree to construct for the applicant a crossing giving access from a public
thoroughfare to —
(i)
the land; or
(ii)
a private thoroughfare serving the land.
(2) A person is not to
construct a crossing for vehicles from a public thoroughfare that is a
Government road to —
(a) land
on which premises have been or are about to be constructed; or
(b) a
private thoroughfare serving the land,
unless the
construction of the crossing has been approved by the local government under
subregulation (1) and the crossing is constructed in accordance with the
approval.
Penalty: a fine of $5 000.
Note for this regulation:
This regulation is of
a kind prescribed in the Local Government Act 1995 Schedule 3.1
Division 2 item 2A(a). This means that an offender might be given a
notice under section 3.25(1)(b) of the Act and if the notice is not
complied with the local government may, under section 3.26, itself do
what the notice required and recover the cost from the offender.
[Regulation 12 amended: Gazette
1 Feb 2013 p. 429-30.]