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Road Management Act 2004
26Power to apply, adopt or incorporate
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26 Power to apply, adopt or incorporate
(1) A Code of Practice may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any authority or body whether—
(a) wholly or partially or as amended by the Code of Practice; or
(b) as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the Code of Practice is made or at any time before then; or
(2) If a Code of Practice has applied, adopted or incorporated any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time and that document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is at any time amended, until the Minister causes notice to be published in the Government Gazette of that amendment, the document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is to be taken not to have been so amended.
(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), a Code of Practice may apply, adopt or incorporate by reference any benchmarks, standards or technical references.