Sch 3Specific powers of State road authorities

Schedule 3—Specific powers of State road authorities

1 Power to inspect, construct, maintain and repair roads

(a) establish, construct, vary and extend roads and road infrastructure;

(b) fix and alter the level and alignment of roadways and pathways;

(c) inspect, maintain and repair roads and road infrastructure;

(d) for the purpose of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), perform any other road management function under this Act.

2 Power to determine the standard of construction

(1) A State road authority may determine the standard to which a road or any part of a road is to be constructed.

(2) For the purposes of this clause, a State road authority must have regard to—

(a) the principal object of road management;

(b) any relevant Code of Practice and any standard or technical reference or other document referred to or incorporated in a relevant Code of Practice;

(c) the economic, budgetary, social, environmental or policy factors, objectives or constraints which apply to the State road authority.

3 Power to deviate roads

A State road authority may deviate a road through available land (whether or not the land is subject to any rights of way).

4 Power to remove unlawful objects from road reserve

A coordinating State road authority may remove, alter or obliterate anything which is unlawfully located on a road reserve other than—

(a) road infrastructure for which another road authority is the infrastructure manager; or

(b) non-road infrastructure.

5 Power to erect signs and number roads

A relevant coordinating State road authority may—

(a) erect signs on a State road; and

(b) approve, assign and change the number of a State road.

6 Power to establish survey marks

A State road authority may cause standard survey marks to be established in roads.

7 Power to provide for temporary roads

(1) A State road authority may provide temporary roads.

(2) For the purposes of enabling works to be carried out on or over a road, or land next to a road, a State road authority may—

(a) fence off and occupy part of the road;

(b) erect a structure or temporary crossing for vehicles on, or over, the road;

(c) permit a person to do anything the State road authority may do under paragraph (a) or (b).