Implementation of The Spit Master Plan Act 2020

The Minister may, for a road in the master plan area, perform functions or exercise powers the Minister considers necessary or desirable to facilitate the implementation of the Spit master plan.

Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may, by gazette notice, permanently or temporarily close all or part of a road in the master plan area.

The closure of the road or part takes effect from the day the gazette notice is published or a later day stated in the notice.

Before the closure takes effect, the Minister must publish notice of the closure in a newspaper circulating in the Gold Coast local government area.

Failure to comply with subsection (4) does not invalidate the closure.

The Minister may do everything necessary to stop traffic using a road or part of a road closed under this section.

A road or part of a road that is permanently closed under this section may be dealt with under an Act as unallocated State land.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that this section applies in relation to a road—

whether or not the road is a State-controlled road under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994; and

whether or not the Land Act 1994 applies in relation to the road.

The Local Government Act 2009, section 75 and the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994, section 33 do not apply in relation to the performance of a function, or the exercise of a power, under this section.

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