Major Events Act 2009
27Road closures—major events
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27 Road closures—major events
27 Road closures—major events
(1) This section applies to roads whether or not the roads are within a transport area.
(2) The responsible authority for a major event may prepare a traffic management plan, or plans, for all roads on which activities associated with a major event are to be conducted.
(3) The responsible authority may, in accordance with a traffic management plan—
(a) control and regulate traffic in any manner and for any purpose, and
(b) temporarily close a road, or part of a road, at any time and for any purpose.
(4) A traffic management plan may, with the consent of the owner or occupier of a private road, apply to a private road in the same way as it applies to roads that are not private roads, subject to subsection (5).
(5) A traffic management plan cannot authorise the closure of a private road unless the owner or occupier of the private road has consented to the closure. Such a consent may be given generally or in a particular case or class of cases.
(6) A traffic management plan is to be prepared in consultation with TfNSW and does not have effect unless and until TfNSW has consented in writing to the plan.
(7) The consent of TfNSW under subsection (6) is taken to be a consent for the purposes of the Roads Act 1993 and the road transport legislation in so far as the consent of TfNSW would, but for this subsection, be required under that Act or that legislation in relation to any matter dealt with in or arising under the traffic management plan.
(8) A traffic management plan may be amended from time to time. Subsection (6) applies to the amendment of a traffic management plan in the same way as it applies to the preparation of a traffic management plan.
(9) A road cannot be closed under this section unless TfNSW has, not less than 3 days before the proposed closure, given public notice of the proposed closure by a notice published on the website of TfNSW.
s 27: Am 2011 No 41, Sch 5.20 [2]; 2020 No 30, Sch 4.39[2]; 2022 No 12, Sch 1[8]; 2024 No 76, Sch 4[13].