38Standards for national highways

#### 38 Standards for national highways (1) For the purpose of ensuring that this Act is conducive to the construction and maintenance of national highways that are of an adequate standard, the Minister may, from time to time: (a) request a State to furnish such information as the Minister specifies relating to the use or likely use of national highways, including the effect on the likely use of national highways of works that the State is carrying out or proposes to carry by way of the construction or maintenance of other roads in the State; (b) after consultation with a State, notify to the State works, or classes of works, by way of the construction or maintenance of the national highways in the State that the Minister considers necessary to be carried out; (c) notify to a State the order in which the Minister considers that works in connection with national highways in the State should be carried out; and (d) notify to a State standards, applicable either generally or otherwise as specified in the notification, that the Minister considers necessary to be observed in connection with the construction or maintenance of national highways. (2) The Minister may revoke or vary a request or notification given under subsection (1).