Proclamation under the Highways Act 1951 and the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 (Tas)

Proclamation under the Highways Act 1951 and the Roads and Jetties Act 1935

I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, by this my proclamation made under section 3 of the Highways Act 1951 and section 7 and section 52A of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 –

(a) notify the dedication as highways of the land of the Crown specified in Schedule 1 to this proclamation; and (b) notify that the boundaries of those highways are the boundaries specified in that Schedule; and (c) declare the portions of road specified in Schedule 2 to this proclamation to be State highways for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935; and (d) declare that the portions of road specified in Schedule 3 to this proclamation cease to be State highways for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935; and (e) declare the portions of road specified in Schedule 4 to this proclamation to be subsidiary roads, classified as secondary roads, for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935; and (f) declare those parts of the Bass Highway specified in Schedule 5 to this proclamation to be limited access roads for the purposes of section 52A of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935; and (g) declare the places of access, for the purposes of section 52B of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935, to be those places specified in Schedule 6 to this proclamation; and (h) amend the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 1970, No. 67 as follows: (i) by omitting from The First Schedule to that proclamation the item relating to the Bass Highway and substituting the following item: Bass Highway From the Midland Highway at the Mount Pleasant Interchange at Launceston to the junction of the Arthur River Road and Comeback Road near Marrawah, via Elizabeth Town, Latrobe, Devonport, Ulverstone, Burnie and Smithton. 273.27