6Standards for national roads

6 Standards for national roads

(1) For the purpose of ensuring that this Act is conducive to the construction and maintenance of national roads that are of an adequate standard, the Minister may, from time to time: (a) request a State to furnish such information as the Minister specifies relating to the use or likely use of national roads, including the effect on the likely use of national roads of projects that the State is carrying out or proposes to carry out by way of the construction or maintenance of other roads in the State; (b) after consultation with a State, notify to the State works, or classes of works, by way of construction and maintenance of the national roads in the State that the Minister considers necessary to be carried out; (c) notify to a State the order in which the Minister considers that works in connection with national roads in the State should be carried out; and (d) notify to a State standards, applicable either generally or otherwise as specified in the notification, that the Minister considers necessary to be observed in connection with the construction or maintenance of national roads. (2) The Minister may revoke or vary a notification forwarded to a State in accordance with subsection (1).