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Reserves Act 1977

Miscellaneous provisions - General provisions

111: Road reserve may be dedicated as a road

You could also call this:

"The government can turn land set aside for a road into an official road."

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If you have land that is set aside for a road, it can be officially made into a road. This happens when the Minister or a local authority decides to use the land for a road and they lodge a notice with the Registrar-General of Land. The land must already be owned by the government or a local authority for the purpose of being a road reserve.

When we talk about a road, we mean any path that people can use to get from one place to another, like a street or a service lane. A road reserve is an area of land that is set aside for a road.

You can find more information about changes to this law by looking at the Land Transfer Act 2017.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
General provisions

111Road reserve may be dedicated as a road

  1. Where any land is vested in the Crown or in any local authority for the purposes of a road reserve and the land is required for the purposes of a road, the land may be dedicated as a road by notice under the hand of the Minister or, as the case may be, by resolution of the local authority, and lodged with the Registrar-General of Land.

  2. For the purposes of this section the term road includes any road, street, access way, or service lane; and the expression road reserve has a corresponding meaning.

Compare
  • 1953 No 69 s 98
  • 1968 No 126 s 2
Notes
  • Section 111(1): amended, on , by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).