Road manager
18 Road manager
The following entities are declared to be the road manager for the following roads for the purposes of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Victoria)—
S. 18(1)(a) amended by No. 49/2019 s. 146.
the Secretary for—
a freeway;
an arterial road;
the Extension road;
the Link road;
the EastLink;
the Peninsula Link Freeway;
S. 18(1)(a)(vii) inserted by No. 8/2019 s. 109(1).
the West Gate Tunnel tollway;
S. 18(1)(a)(viii) inserted by No. 18/2020 s. 132(a).
the North East Link road;
the relevant responsible road authority under section 37(1)(c) or (d) of the Road Management Act 2004 for a non-arterial State road;
the Council of the municipal district for a municipal road or part of a municipal road situated in that district;
the owner of the road for any other road.
Note
See section 5 of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Victoria) for the definition of road manager.
An entity referred to in subsection (1) may enter into an arrangement with another such entity to transfer a function of the entity in relation to a road to that other entity.
If an arrangement is in force under subsection (2), a reference in the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Victoria) to the road manager for the road in relation to the function transferred is taken to be a reference to the entity to which the function has been transferred.
In this section—
arterial road has the same meaning as in the Road Management Act 2004;
EastLink has the same meaning as in the EastLink Project Act 2004;
Extension road has the same meaning as in the Melbourne City Link Act 1995;
freeway has the same meaning as in the Road Management Act 2004;
Link road has the same meaning as in the Melbourne City Link Act 1995;
municipal road has the same meaning as in the Road Management Act 2004;
non-arterial State road has the same meaning as in the Road Management Act 2004;
S. 18(4) def. of North East Link road inserted by No. 18/2020 s. 132(b).
North East Link road has the same meaning as in the North East Link Act 2020;
S. 18(4) def. of Peninsula Link Freeway substituted by No. 8/2019 s. 109(2).
Peninsula Link Freeway has the same meaning as in the Road Management Act 2004;
S. 18(4) def. of West Gate Tunnel tollway inserted by No. 8/2019 s. 109(2).
West Gate Tunnel tollway has the same meaning as in the West Gate Tunnel (Truck Bans and Traffic Management) Act 2019.
S. 19 amended by No. 7/2019 s. 35.
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