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; ***tourists' road*** means a road declared to be a tourists' road under the **Transport Act 1983** or proclaimed to be a tourists' road under any corresponding previous enactment. 2 Savings provisions (1) Subject to this Act, the amendments made to the **Transport Act 1983** by section 137 do not affect the continuity, status, operation or effect of any act, matter or thing done, existing or continuing under the **Transport Act 1983** as in force immediately before 1 July 2004. (2) The repeal of section 203 of the **Local Government Act 1989** does not affect the status of any public highways vested in a municipal council under that section. Sch. 10 (Heading) amended by No. 45/2016 s. 11.