38Removal of trees near highways

### 38 Removal of trees near highways > > (1)  Subject to [subsection (2)](#GS38@Gs2@EN) , the corporation may, for the purpose of ensuring or facilitating the good management of a highway under local management, cut down and remove any indigenous timber growing or standing within 25 metres of the centre of the highway, making good any damage or injury thereby caused to any other thing on the land on which entry was made for the purpose of cutting down or removing the timber. > > > (2)  The corporation shall not exercise the powers referred to in [subsection (1)](#GS38@Gs1@EN) in relation to Crown land unless it has previously obtained the consent of the Director-General of Lands for the exercise by it of those powers in relation to that land. > > > (3)  A corporation shall not under this section without the consent of the Director-General of Lands, in the case of Crown land, or the owner of the land, in any other case, cut down any timber reserved or planted for ornament or shelter. > > > (4)  The corporation shall make good any damage or injury caused by it in cutting down and removing any timber in contravention of this section.