Local Government (Highways) Act 1982

For the purpose of carrying out highway works in a highway, the corporation may close the highway or close it to particular forms of traffic or may otherwise restrict the exercise of the rights of passage over the highway if the corporation places on or near the highway, in accordance with such instructions as are given to it by the Transport Commission, such traffic signs as are issued to it by the Commission.

Subject to subsection (3), a corporation may leave, stack, or deposit on a local highway vehicles, plant, equipment, or materials required for the carrying out of highway works in that highway.

In carrying out works in a highway (whether or not those works are highway works within the meaning of this Act), the corporation shall take all proper precautions to avoid damage to property or injury to persons, in particular, precautions by way of shoring up and protecting land and buildings adjacent to the highway, and erecting of barriers and notices on the highway, and guarding or lighting of obstacles and other sources of danger.

A corporation may sell, or otherwise dispose of, timber or other materials obtained by it in the course of carrying out highway works.