The schedules operate through a small set of technical legal concepts, each of which is used in a precise way in the text. Those concepts are: dedication of Crown land as highways, declaration of State Highways, cessation of State Highways, subsidiary roads, limited access roads, and places of access.

• Dedication of Crown land as Highways (Schedule 1). The text identifies Crown land portions tied to the Bass Highway and describes their limits by reference to physical markers and interchange ramps, and by reference to plans in the Central Plan Register. The operative descriptor for the spatial extent is the plan series 6520-6531 and heavy black line boundaries shown on those plans.
• Declaration of State Highways (Schedule 2). The same physical descriptions are used to list portions of road declared State Highways. The schedule format juxtaposes the name, a route description, and a length in kilometres for each declared portion.
• Cessation of State Highways (Schedule 3). The schedules include routes that "cease to be" State Highway. Those entries provide different route descriptions and lengths; the schedule therefore effects transfers in status between being a State Highway and not.
• Subsidiary Roads (Schedule 4). The instrument lists secondary roads connected to the main declared segments, with precise start and end points and kilometre measurements. These form the local road network tied to the principal declared segments.
• Limited Access Roads (Schedule 5). The instrument marks particular parts of the Bass Highway as "Limited Access Roads" and again references the same plans and boundaries as the dedication and declaration schedules. Limited access indicates a classification relevant to access control, and the instrument links that classification to the places listed in Schedule 6.
• Places of Access (Schedule 6). This schedule numbers and locates specific points of access, giving distances from two anchor points (two overpass centres). The display and numbering are explicitly stated to comply with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Operational detail such as exact coordinates, cadastral identifiers and graphical boundaries are not printed in the schedule text. Instead, the plans in the Central Plan Register are the spatial authority, as the schedule repeatedly ties its descriptions to those plans (Schedules 1, 2 and 5). The instrument therefore functions as a legal index referencing external cadastral/plan material to define precise boundaries and access points. The Gazette notification and departmental administration entries provide the administrative provenance and the formal publication date (22 September 2004).

The schedule’s practical footprint touches several categories of actors, each affected in different ways by the reclassification and mapping measures in the text.

• The administering agency. The instrument is administered in the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. The department is the administrative contact point for implementation, queries, and any operational steps that follow the schedule publication.
• Owners and occupiers of adjacent land. Landholders whose property borders the listed segments or subsidiary roads are directly affected because the schedule reclassifies Crown land as highway, identifies where access is recorded, and designates limited access portions. Schedule 6 specifically lists numbered access points with distances from reference overpasses, information that is directly relevant to where adjoining landholders may lawfully connect or seek access.
• Road users and transport operators. Drivers, freight operators and transit planners gain a changed mapping of the Bass Highway and linked roads, including interchange ramps and nearby subsidiary roads. The designation of limited access road segments and identified places of access will shape routing options and access patterns.
• Road network managers and contractors. Any party engaged in construction, maintenance, surveying or engineering work on these segments must work to the boundaries and plans referenced in the schedules (Plans 6520-6531). The schedule’s repeated references to plan boundaries and interchange ramps indicate the requirement to undertake detailed plan-based work rather than relying on textual route descriptions alone.
• Local government, planning and permitting bodies. Although the schedule itself does not state transfer of maintenance responsibilities, the reclassification will be relevant to agencies responsible for approving works, issuing access permits, and interfacing with the administering department, because access points and network classification are recorded here.
• Surveyors, planners and legal practitioners. The instrument’s legal effect is map-driven, so professionals who certify boundaries, prepare easements, or advise on access rights will need to consult the Central Plan Register plans and the Gazette notice to determine the precise extents and to reconcile any inconsistencies or measurement differences in the textual schedules.

The instrument therefore affects parties who make decisions contingent on road classification, those who need to locate the precise physical boundaries on the ground, and bodies that administer or approve access and works. The schedule names the department responsible for administration and anchors spatial authority in numbered Central Plan Register plans, directing affected parties to those administrative and documentary sources for operational detail.

The schedules set out classifications and mapped points; they do not, within the text provided, spell out statutory duties such as maintenance obligations, permission processes, or compensation rights. Nevertheless, the schedule creates legal facts that will give rise to duties and rights under the broader statutory and administrative frameworks that govern highways and Crown land. From the schedule itself, the following duties and rights arise as practical legal effects that parties should treat as operative starting points.

• Duty to use plan-based boundaries. The schedules repeatedly tie extents and access to specific Central Plan Register plans (Plans 6520-6531). That creates an operational duty for any person or agency acting on the basis of the schedule to use those plans as the spatial authority for boundaries and interchange ramps (Schedules 1, 2, 5).
• Right to rely on the Gazette and displayed notices. The schedule records that it was "Notified in the Gazette on 22 September 2004" and that the Places of Access are "Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953" (Schedule 6). Those publication and display steps produce formal notice, which is the baseline that affected parties may rely upon for the fact of the classification.
• Access point specification. Schedule 6 enumerates specific numbered places of access and measures their distance from two overpass centres. Those entries function as a record of where access is identified; users and adjoining landholders have a definitional right to know where access points are recorded. The schedule does not contain the procedural detail for obtaining or altering access, but it does remove ambiguity about the recorded positions that will be relevant to any application or dispute.
• Classification-driven constraints. By naming portions as "Limited Access Roads" (Schedule 5), the schedule establishes a category of road with an implied constraint on access within the listed portions. The text does not set out the scope of that constraint, or the procedural mechanism to seek exceptions, but the limited access label is a classificatory fact that will be applied administratively.
• Lack of express operational duties in the text. The schedules do not themselves include maintenance, enforcement, compensation or approval pathways. Those duties and rights therefore remain to be located in the statutes, regulations or departmental policies that give operational effect to the classifications created in these schedules.

For practitioners, the practical consequence of these schedules is that spatial factfinding becomes the legal starting point. Duties and rights under other laws will follow from the classifications here. The schedules instruct practitioners to consult the Central Plan Register plans for boundaries, the Gazette notice for formal publication, and the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources for administrative procedures. The schedule’s silence on procedural and compensatory mechanisms is consequential: it places importance on cross-referencing the other instruments and departmental practice that implement the classifications recorded here.

The schedule text itself contains no penal clauses, infringement schemes or specified enforcement measures. There are therefore three immediate observations about penalties and enforcement arising purely from what the schedule contains.

• No internal penalty regime. Neither the schedule entries nor the terminal administrative statements attach fines, offences, or enforcement sanctions to the acts of accessing, constructing or otherwise affecting the listed road segments. Absent other statutory text within this instrument, the schedules do not create penalty-triggering provisions.
• Enforcement will be procedural and statutory outside the schedule. Because the schedule is a classificatory instrument that references spatial plans and public notification, any enforcement or penalties applicable to acts on the affected roads will necessarily be found in other legislation or in administrative instruments administered by the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources or other relevant bodies. The schedule ties the subject to a department for administration but does not specify enforcement mechanisms.
• Administrative enforcement risk. The instrument’s references to limited access roads and to specified places of access imply that administrative control exists: authorities will have rules or processes for permitting, restricting, or remedying unauthorised access. The schedule’s role is to fix the recorded points and extents that administrative enforcement will use as the factual basis for action. The absence of enforcement text in the schedule itself increases the practical importance of obtaining departmental guidance about permit requirements, sanctions, and compliance pathways.

For practitioners, this means two concrete steps. First, identify and consult the statutory sources and departmental policies that implement access and enforcement for State Highways and Crown land. Second, treat the Central Plan Register and Gazette notice as the factual baseline that enforcement agencies will reference when exercising their statutory powers. The schedule is not a stand-alone enforcement instrument; it is an evidentiary and classificatory input into enforcement regimes that sit elsewhere.

The instrument explicitly references the Rules Publication Act 1953 for the way that places of access are displayed and numbered (Schedule 6). Beyond that specific citation, the schedule’s classificatory changes will interact with any statutory and regulatory framework that allocates responsibilities and powers according to road classification, Crown land status, or publication practice. The schedule text itself does not set out those external laws, but it creates facts that other laws will act upon.

• Publication and formal notice. The schedule records compliance with publication norms by stating the Gazette notification date, 22 September 2004, and alignment with the Rules Publication Act 1953 for display and numbering. That interaction is procedural: it determines when the classificatory facts are formally communicated and the legal notice that underpins administrative and legal reliance (Schedule 6).
• Spatial authority delegated to plans. The schedule’s repeated instruction that boundaries are "shown by heavy black lines on Plans 6520-6531 in the Central Plan Register" means that any legislation or regulation that depends on precise boundaries will rely on those plans. The schedule therefore delegates the spatial detail to the Central Plan Register, making those plans the operative documents for interaction with cadastral, planning, and transport regulation regimes (Schedules 1, 2, 5).
• Classification dependencies. The schedule establishes categories,State Highways, subsidiary roads, limited access roads,and those categories will interact with other legal regimes that differentiate powers, funding, maintenance, and planning on the basis of a road’s classification. The schedule does not itself allocate or state those powers, so practitioners must map the schedule’s classifications onto the other statutes and policies that do allocate administrative responsibilities.
• Administrative coordination. The schedule identifies the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources as the administering body. This creates an administrative interaction point between the schedule and departmental policies, approvals and permits. Those policies will be where the schedule’s classifications gain operational effect, for example through grant or maintenance programs, access approval processes, or works permits.
• Evidentiary interaction. In disputes, the Gazette notice, the places of access display and the Central Plan Register plans listed in the schedule will function as primary evidence of the classification and of where access has been recorded. The schedule therefore interacts with procedural rules on evidence and administrative law when classifications are challenged or when rights and duties derived from the classification are in dispute.

The instrument therefore acts as a classificatory node that must be connected to the broader statutory and administrative architecture for roads, Crown land, planning and access control. The schedule’s explicit legal interactions are limited to publication norms under the Rules Publication Act 1953 and the administrative designation of a department; the rest of the interactions depend on cross-referencing the statutory schemes that implement the consequences of those classifications.

The schedule text provides only a minimal administrative history within the instrument itself.

• Notification and administrative date. The schedules are recorded as "Notified in the Gazette on 22 September 2004." That is the only date of formal publication given in the text.
• No amendments recorded in the provided text. The instrument does not record any subsequent amendments, revocations, or variations to the entries within these schedules. No amendment dates, instrument numbers, or transitional provisions are included in the material supplied.
• Plan references not amended within text. The plans listed (Central Plan Register Plans 6520-6531) are cited as the spatial authority for the boundaries. The schedule does not include any amendment to plan numbers or a mechanism for updating plan references within the schedule itself.

For practical purposes, the single datum in the schedule’s own amendment history is the Gazette notification of 22 September 2004. Practitioners assessing current status must therefore treat the schedule as an instrument that was published on that date, and must seek any subsequent amendment records, revocation notices, consolidations, or replacement instruments outside the text provided. The schedule itself contains no chronological chain of change beyond the original notification statement.

The provided text does not contain any references to litigation, court decisions, or administrative appeals that interpret, implement, or challenge the schedules or the designations within them. There are no case citations, no references to legal proceedings, and no notes on disputes or adjudication arising from the classifications listed.

Given that absence, the following points follow strictly from the text:

• No litigation recorded in the schedule. The instrument, as supplied, does not record any litigation history or judicial interpretation.
• Evidentiary reliance on external records. Any litigation arising from access, boundary disputes or classification is likely to rely on the Gazette notification date, the Central Plan Register plans referred to (Plans 6520-6531), and the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources as the administrative body. Those documents and administrative records, not this schedule’s prose alone, will be the primary materials in any dispute.
• Practitioners should search external sources. Because the schedule does not supply litigation history, lawyers and advisers must search court records and administrative tribunal records for any disputes that post-date the Gazette notification, but that search must be undertaken outside the contents of this schedule.

In short, the schedule contains no litigation history within itself. Any case law or decisions applying or construing these schedules would be external to this instrument and absent from the text provided.

The schedule contains several practical features and textual idiosyncrasies that create implementation risks or require careful scrutiny. These are concrete points to check before relying on the schedule for design, access, legal argument or planning.

• Plan-based boundaries rather than coordinates. The schedules function by reference to Central Plan Register Plans 6520-6531 and to "heavy black lines" shown on those plans (Schedules 1, 2, 5). The heavy black line method requires parties to obtain and inspect the plans. The schedule provides no coordinates or cadastral parcel identifiers, so on-the-ground boundary determination depends on the register plans and survey work.
• Measurement disparities and rounding. The numerical lengths in Schedules 1 and 2 for the first Bass Highway segment are recorded as 12.68 kilometres, while Schedule 3 lists a similar leg as 12.67 kilometres. The second declared lengths are 11.63 kilometres in Schedules 1 and 2, but Schedule 3 records a ceasing segment at 7.46 kilometres. These differences in kilometres between declared and ceased segments create a potential mismatch between the areas added and removed from State Highway status and require reconciliation via the plan material to understand the net change.
• Duplicate and inconsistent headings in the text. The schedule text as supplied contains repeated phrases and partial duplications in headings, for example "SCHEDULE 1 - Dedication of Cro SCHEDULE 1 - Dedication of Crown land as Highways" and similar duplications elsewhere. Those textual duplications introduce risk of transcription or formatting errors in a printed instrument and counsel verifying the original Gazette entry and Central Plan Register for authoritative wording.
• Dependence on the Central Plan Register. The practical limits of the schedule are entirely plan-dependent. The text’s repeated reliance on plan numbers means that absent access to those plans a practitioner cannot precisely locate interchange ramp boundaries or confirm the limits of limited access designation. The plans are therefore necessary before making legal or operational decisions.
• Places of Access measured from two reference points. Schedule 6 measures each access point by distance from one of two overpass centres, causing a bifurcated referential system that requires care when translating to on-ground distances. Some entries are blank for one of the reference columns, and the table includes side-of-road indicators (north side, south side) that must be reconciled against map orientation.
• Limited access label without procedural detail. The instrument designates limited access roads but does not supply the operational rules for access control, permits, or exceptions. That gap means parties must examine the administering department’s policies or other statutes to understand how the classification is enforced.
• Administrative administration without operational text. The instrument states that it is "administered in the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources" but includes no operating procedures, contact points or application pathways. Absent departmental guidance, affected parties face uncertainty about approval processes and timelines.
• Display and numbering compliance statement. The text expressly states that display and numbering conform to the Rules Publication Act 1953. Practitioners should verify the physical display and the archival records because the legal effect of display may depend on strict compliance with that Act.

Each of these points is concrete and grounded in textual features of the schedule. They are not legal conclusions about rights or obligations beyond the schedule; rather they are practical items that increase the need to consult the Central Plan Register, the Gazette notice, and the administering department before relying on the schedule in planning or legal advice.

Compliance in this context is primarily documentary verification and administrative coordination before undertaking works, seeking access, or asserting rights. The schedule sets map-based facts; complying with its effect requires aligning practical decisions with the referenced plans, the Gazette notice, and the administering department’s processes. The following steps are concrete actions to take, drawn from the instrument’s contents.

• Obtain the Central Plan Register plans numbered 6520-6531. The schedules repeatedly rely on those plans for boundary definitions and ramp extents (Schedules 1, 2, 5). Before any survey, design, or legal advice, acquire and inspect the plans to confirm heavy black line boundaries and interchange ramp layouts referenced in the schedules.
• Confirm the Gazette notification. The schedule states it was notified in the Gazette on 22 September 2004. Obtain the Gazette notice to verify the instrument’s wording, any marginal notes, and any formal signatures or instrument numbers. The Gazette notice is the baseline for the date of formal publication and may include additional administrative context.
• Consult the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. The schedule is administered in that department. Contact the department for authoritative advice on access approvals, permit processes, maintenance responsibility, and any departmental policies applying to limited access roads and State Highways. The schedule itself provides the departmental contact only as the administering body; the department will have the operating detail absent from the schedule.
• Use the Places of Access table as the starting point for access planning. Schedule 6 lists numbered access points with distances from two overpass centres and side-of-road indicators. Use those numbered locations, together with the Central Plan Register plans, to identify where on-ground access is recorded. For proposals to create new access or to alter existing access, seek departmental approval and confirm procedure.
• Reconcile measurement anomalies with plan material. Where the schedule’s kilometre figures differ between schedules, or where lengths do not arithmetically reconcile, treat the plans as the controlling source. If planning or legal outcomes depend on precise kilometre lengths, commission a professional survey anchored to the Central Plan Register plans to remove ambiguity.
• Do not assume procedural rights or penalties from the schedule text. The schedules do not specify enforcement, penalties, compensation, or approval pathways. To comply legally, identify the statutes, regulations, licences, or departmental policies that govern works, access permits and sanctions for the particular classifications recorded here.
• Record and verify display compliance. Schedule 6 refers to display and numbering in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953. Where compliance with statutory display requirements is relevant to legal effect or to notice-defence arguments, obtain evidence that the places of access were displayed and numbered as required.
• Coordinate with adjacent landholders and local authorities. Before undertaking works that interface with the listed segments or access points, notify and coordinate with adjoining landholders and any local planning authorities likely to be involved in permitting or approvals. Use the schedule’s routes and access listings to frame those consultations.
• Maintain documentary trail. Where approvals or departmental rulings are sought, keep copies of the Central Plan Register plans, the Gazette notice, written departmental instructions, and any permits or licences. The schedule will function as a classificatory record; procedural authorisations and departmental communications will be the documents that operationalise the schedule and will be critical in dispute resolution.

These steps flow from the schedule’s structure and from the administrative facts it records. Compliance hinges on moving from the schedule’s text to the plan material and to departmental processes, because the schedules themselves do not supply operational detail about approvals, penalties or maintenance.