202 Private Roads And Sub-Divisions

AuthorRalph Hone
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CHAPTER 202.

PRIVATE ROADS AND SUB-DIVISIONS.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

  1. SHORT TITLE.

  2. INTERPRETATION.

  3. UNLAWFUL TO LAY OUT NEW ROAD OR SUB-DIVISION WITHOUT APPROVAL OF COMMITTEE.

    PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING APPROVAL.

  4. UNLAWFUL TO LAY OUT A NEW ROAD OR SUB-DMisION WITHOUT APPROVAL OF MINIsTER.

    PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING APPROVAL. 5. APPROVAL OF MINISTER TO CONSTRUCT ANY NEW ROAD.

  5. OWNER TO MARK OUT LOTS ON GROUND.

  6. No PERSON TO COMMENCE TO BUILD BEFORE MARKERS PLACED AND NEW ROAD FORMED AND GRADED.

  7. APPROVAL OF COMMITTEE TO ALIENATE UNNUMBERED LOTS.

  8. APPEAL FROM DECISION OF COMMITTEE OR MINISTER.

  9. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

  10. PROSECUTIONS.

  11. APPEAL FROM STIPENDIARY AND CIRCUIT MAGISTRATE OR CIRCUIT JUSTICE.

  12. RULES.

  13. APPLICATION OF ACT.

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    CHAPTER 202.

    PRIVATE ROADS AND SUB-DIVISIONS.

    AN ACT TO MAKE FRESH PROVISION FOR THE LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW PRIVATE ROADS AND FOR THE LAYING OUT AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SUB-DIVISIONS AND TO CONFER POWERS ON THE TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE AS WELL AS THE MINISTER FOR WORKS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH;

    AND TO MAKE PROVISION FOR MATTERS CONNECTED, WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID.

    [31st July 1961.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Private Roads and Sub-divisions Act.

  14. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Committee' means the Town Planning Committee appointed under section 4 of The Town Planning Act;

    'Minister' means the Minister for Works appointed by the Governor under the provisions of section 3 of The Public Works Act;

    'Minister for Town Planning' means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the administration of The Town Planning Act;

    'owner', in relation to any land, means a person other than a mortgagee not in possession, who, whether in his own right or as trustee or agent for any other person, is entitled to receive the rack rent of the land or, where the land is not let at a rack rent, would be so entitled if it were so let;

    'road' means any alley, highway, lane, street or thoroughfare;

    'sub-division', in relation to any land, means a plot of land divided into lots, in the division of which plot, provision is made for the reser 41 of 1961.

    17 of 1963.

    58 of 1963.

    G.N. 7 (38) of 1964.

    43 of 1964.

    47 of 1964.

    Short title.

    Interpretation.

    G.N. 7 (38) of 1964.

    Ch. 206.

    Ch. 14.

    Unlawful to lay out new road or subdivision without approval of Committee.

    Procedure for obtaining approval.

    vation of sites for the construction of access roads.

  15. -(1) No person shall without the approval of the Committee lay out any new road or sub-division.

    (2) Every owner of land desiring to lay out any new road or sub-division shall submit to the Committee two copies of a survey plan of his plot of land showing the site of every proposed road and, in the case of any new sub-division, also the number, positions, shapes, boundaries and dimensions of the several lots into which it is proposed to divide such plot of land.

    (3) Every new road shall be of such width and direction as the...

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