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Roads and Jetties Act 1935
7Power to proclaim State highways and subsidiary roads
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### 7 Power to proclaim State highways and subsidiary roads
> *\[Section 7 Substituted by 8 Geo. VI No. 4, s. 4 \]**\[Section 7 Amended by No. 22 of 1951, s. 6 and Sched. 1 \]*
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> > (1) The Governor may, by proclamation, declare any road or any specified portion thereof to be a State highway or subsidiary road for the purposes of this Part, and in like manner may at any time declare that any such road, or any specified portion thereof, shall cease to be a State highway or subsidiary road.
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> > (2) Every proclamation under this section shall have effect upon and from the date specified therein or, if no date is so specified, from the date of the gazettal of the proclamation.
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> > (3) *\[Section 7 Subsection (3) amended by No. 35 of 1985, s. 25 and Sched. 1 \]**\[Section 7 Subsection (3) amended by No. 5 of 1990, s. 3 and Sched. 1 \]**\[Section 7 Subsection (3) amended by No. 86 of 1993, s. 6 \]*In any proclamation under this section which declares any road or portion thereof to be a subsidiary road, every subsidiary road to which the proclamation relates shall be classified as a –
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> > > > (a) main road;
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> > > > (b) secondary road;
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> > > > (c) developmental road; or
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> > > > (d) tourist road.