Proclamation under the Highways Act 1951 and the Roads and Jetties Act 1935

Proclamation under the Highways Act 1951 and the Roads and Jetties Act 1935

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, by this my proclamation made under section 3 of the Highways Act 1951 and section 7 of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935  –

(a) notify, for the purposes of section 3 of the Highways Act 1951  –

(i) the dedication as a highway of the land of the Crown specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this proclamation; and

(ii) that the boundaries of the highway are the boundaries specified in that Part of that Schedule; and

(b) declare the portions of road specified in Schedule 2 as ceasing to be State highways for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 ; and

(c) declare the portions of road specified in Schedule 3 as ceasing to be subsidiary roads for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 ; and

(d) revoke the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 1983, No. 234 in its entirety; and

(e) declare the portions of road specified in Schedule 4 to be State highway for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 ; and

(f) declare the portions of road specified in Schedule 5 to be subsidiary roads for the purposes of Part II of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935 ; and

(g) amend the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 1970, No. 67 by omitting from the First Schedule to that proclamation the item relating to the Midland Highway and substituting the following item:

Midland Highway

From the Brooker Highway at Granton to a point 0.23 kilometres north of Howick Street, Launceston, via the deviation at Pontville, via Campbell Town and via the deviation at Perth

112.14 miles (180.48 kilometres)

(h) amend the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 1970, No. 67 by omitting from Part I of the Second Schedule to that proclamation the items relating to the Evandale Main Road and Illawarra Main Road and inserting the following items in their correct alphabetical positions:

Evandale	From the Midland Highway at the Breadalbane Roundabout, including the south-west spur extending 160 metres to the start of the Midland Highway southbound on-ramp, to the north-western boundary of Russell Street, Evandale via Western Junction	4.33 miles (6.98 kilometres)
Glenstone	From the junction of the Midland Highway and Weily Park Road through to the Midland Highway Roundabout connecting to Brighton Road	2.37 miles (3.83 kilometres)
Illawarra	From the Midland Highway at Perth, at a point approximately 336 metres east of the junction of Pateena Road and Illawarra Road, to the Meander Valley Secondary Road	8.0 miles (12.89 kilometres)

(i) amend the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 1970, No. 67 by omitting from Part II of the Second Schedule to that proclamation the item relating to the Tea Tree Secondary Road and substituting the following item:

Tea Tree

From a point approximately 226 metres east of the junction of Derwent Street and Tea Tree Road to its junction with Colebrook Main Road near Campania, via Tea Tree

9.02 miles (14.521 kilometres)

(j) declare that this proclamation takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the Gazette.

13 February 2024

B. BAKER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

MICHAEL DARREL JOSEPH FERGUSON

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport

SCHEDULE 1 - Dedication of Crown Land as Highway

PART 1 - Description

From a point on the existing Midland Highway approximately 100 metres north-east of its junction with Old Main Road, Bridgewater through to the existing Midland Highway at the roundabout at Pontville, via the Brighton-Pontville bypass and including the Brighton Interchange and the Tea Tree Road Interchange comprising the area of land shown shaded in grey on Plan No. 11422, Sheets 1 to 7, in the Central Plan Register, a reduced copy of which is set out, by way of illustration only, in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to this proclamation.

PART 2 - Plans

SCHEDULE 2 - Portions of roads ceasing to be State highways

SCHEDULE 3 - Portions of roads ceasing to be subsidiary roads

SCHEDULE 4 - Portions of road declared to be State highway

SCHEDULE 5 - Portions of roads declared to be subsidiary roads

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 21 February 2024

This proclamation is administered in the Department of State Growth.