Sch 9Transitional and savings provisions

Schedule 9—Transitional and savings provisions

1 Declaration of existing roads

(1) A road which immediately before 1 July 2004 is declared as a freeway, is deemed to have been declared as a freeway under this Act.

(2) A road which immediately before 1 July 2004 is declared as—

(a) a forest road; or

(b) a main road; or

(c) a State highway; or

(d) the King-Street Bridge; or

(e) a tourists' road—

is deemed to have been declared as an arterial road under this Act.

(3) A road which immediately before 1 July 2004 is declared as a stock route is deemed to be a road under this Act.

(4) A part of a road which immediately before 1 July 2004 is declared as a metropolitan bridge, is deemed to have been declared under this Act the same as the declaration under this Act of the road connected by the metropolitan bridge.

(5) A road which immediately before 1 July 2004 is not a road to which subclause (1) or (4) applies may be declared as a State road or municipal road under this Act if a road authority registers the public highway as a public road in its register of roads.

(6) A metropolitan bridge is to be declared the same as the declaration of the public road connected by the metropolitan bridge.

(7) In this clause—

forest road means a road declared to be a forest road under the Transport Act 1983 or proclaimed to be a forest road under any corresponding previous enactment;

main road means a road declared to be or deemed to be a main road under the Transport Act 1983 or any corresponding previous enactment;

metropolitan bridge means a bridge declared or deemed to have been declared under the Transport Act 1983 or any corresponding previous enactment to be a metropolitan bridge;

King-Street Bridge has the same meaning as it had in the King-street Bridge Act 1957;

State highway means a road declared to be or deemed to be a State highway under the Transport Act 1983 or any corresponding previous enactment;

stock route means a route declared to be or deemed to be a stock route under the Transport Act 1983 or any corresponding previous enactment;

means a road declared to be a tourists' road under the or proclaimed to be a tourists' road under any corresponding previous enactment.