Roads Act 1993

A roads authority may regulate traffic on a specified public road or on all public roads for which it is the roads authority—

in relation to a classified road, by means of an order published in a daily newspaper circulating generally throughout the State, or

in relation to any other public road, by means of an order published in one or more local newspapers or in a daily newspaper circulating generally throughout the State.

A roads authority may, by order served on any person, prohibit the person from causing any vehicle under the person’s control to pass along a specified local road unless the vehicle is being driven to a destination that cannot be reached except by means of that road.

An order under this section may not be made unless the roads authority is satisfied that it is necessary to do so in order to prevent damage in excess of the ordinary wear and tear arising from the reasonable use of the road or roads concerned.

A person must not, without reasonable excuse, contravene an order under this section.

A roads authority must revoke any order under this section as soon as the circumstances giving rise to its making cease to exist.

Unless sooner revoked, an order under this section ceases to have effect at the expiration of 12 months after it was made.

Subsection (6) does not prevent an order being remade.