Section 60: Adoption of private road
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.
60. Adoption of private road
(1) (a) Where roadworks have been executed on a private road, the local
authority may, by notice displayed in a prominent position in the road, declare
the road to be a public road, and, on the expiry of the period of one month
from the day on which the notice was first displayed in the road, the road shall
become a public road.
(b) A road shall not become a public road by virtue of this subsection where, within that period, the owner of the road, or, if more than one,
the majority in number of the owners, by notice to the local authority, object
to such declaration.
(2) Where roadworks have been executed in a part only of a road, not
being a part extending for the whole of the length of the road, subsection (1)
shall apply as if, for references to the road, there were substituted references to the length of the road which constitutes or comprises that part.
(3) Where all roadworks have been executed on a private road to the satisfaction of the local authority, on the application of the majority in rateable
value of the owners of premises in the road, the local authority shall, within
the period of 3 months from the date of the application, by notice displayed
in a prominent position in the road, declare the road to be a public road.
(4) A reference to a road in subsection (1) (a) shall not include a reference to a part of a road.