State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971

This section applies if a rearrangement of roads is required to be made for the undertaking of works by the Coordinator-General or for the implementation of an approved development scheme.

The Coordinator-General may, by gazette notice, do 1 or more of the following—

permanently or temporarily close all or part of an existing road;

open and construct new roads;

increase the width of a road;

divert a road.

The Coordinator-General may also—

make surveys for new roads; and

raise or lower the soil of a road.

Before the closure of all or part of a road takes effect, the Coordinator-General must publish, in a newspaper circulating in the relevant local government area, a notice about the closure.

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

The Coordinator-General may do everything necessary to stop traffic using a road or part of a road closed under subsection (2)(a).

If all or part of a road is permanently closed, the land comprising the road or part of the road may be—

used for the works being undertaken by the Coordinator-General or for the implementation of the approved development scheme; or

otherwise disposed of.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that this section applies—

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

whether or not the Land Act 1994 applies to a road.