Section 28: Construction and care
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
28. Construction and care
(1) (a) Every highway authority shall, subject to the directions of the
Minister, undertake the construction, care, maintenance and improvement of
the roads or classes of road for which it is responsible.
(b) Where a local authority, being the highway authority, fails to
maintain a road for the maintenance of which it is responsible, the Minister
may, after giving notice to the highway authority, arrange for the works to
be executed in such manner as it shall direct, and the cost of the works shall
be deducted from any grant payable by Government to the local authority.
(2) (a) Liability to undertake the construction, care, maintenance and improvement of a road shall include liability to pay all the costs incurred in the
construction, care, maintenance and improvement.
(b) The Minister may, at the request of a district council, direct that,
for any period not exceeding 12 months and not overlapping 2 financial
years, a rural road for which the district council is responsible shall be maintained out of funds controlled by the permanent secretary.
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