Main Roads and Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration) Amendment Act 1970 (NSW)

MAIN ROADS AND SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE

(ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT ACT.

ANNO UNDEVICESIMO

ELIZABETHS II BEGINS

Act No. 15, 1970.

An Act to authorise the proclamation of certain work designed to facilitate the movement of motor traffic between Sydney and Wollongong as a toll work; to make provision with respect to moneys paid to the State under the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1969 of the Parliament of the Common­ wealth; to make further provision with respect to the levying of tolls and charges on vehicles crossing the Sydney Harbour Bridge; for these and other purposes to amend the Main Roads Act, 1924, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration) Act, 1932; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 26th March, 1970.] BE

•Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in	BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. This Act may be cited as the "Main Roads and Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration) Amendment Act, 1970".

The Main Roads Act, 1924, is amended by inserting at the end of section 31c the following new subsection :—

2.

(2) The Governor may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, proclaim as a toll work any work under this Act which is designed to facilitate the move­ ment of motor traffic between Sydney and Wollongong and which at the commencement of the Main Roads and Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration) Amend­ ment Act, 1970, is in the course of being carried out or which after that commencement is, or is to be, carried out.

3. (1) The Main Roads Act, 1924, is further amended—

(a) (i) by inserting in section two next after the

matter relating to Part III the following new

matter :—

P A R T	I I I A . — C O M M O N W E A L T H	A I D
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(ii)  by omitting from the same section the matter

relating to Part V A ;

<b) by omitting subsection (1A) of section three;

(c)

(c) by inserting next after Part III the following new Part :—

PART IIIA.

C O M M O N W E A L T H A I D ROADS F U N D .

8A. (1) In this Part, except in so far as
the context or subject-matter otherwise

indicates or requires—

"Commonwealth Act" means the

Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1969 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth;

"Commonwealth Minister" means the Minister of State of the Common­ wealth for the time being admini­ stering the Commonwealth Act.

(2) Any word or phrase used in this Part which has a meaning ascribed thereto in the Commonwealth Act shall have the like meaning in this Part.

8B. There shall be a Commonwealth Aid

Roads Fund, consisting of—

(a) so much of the moneys paid to the State under section three of the

Commonwealth Act in respect of a

year as is equal to the amount required to be expended by the State in respect of that year under subsection one of section four of that Act;

(b) so much of the moneys paid to the State under section three of the Commonwealth Act in respect of a year as is equal to the amount

required

required to be expended by the State in respect of that year under subsection two of section four of that Act;

(c)	so much of the moneys paid to the State under section three of the Commonwealth Act in respect of a year as is equal to so much of the amount required to be expended by the State in respect of that year under subsection three of section four of that Act as the Treasurer determines; and
(d)	so much of the moneys paid to the State under section three of the Commonwealth Act in respect of a year as is equal to the amount required to be expended by the State in respect of that year under subsection four of section four of that Act.

8c. (1) So much of the moneys in the Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund as consists of moneys referred to in paragraph (a) of section 8B of this Act shall be expended on the construction of urban arterial roads.

(2) So much of the moneys in the Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund as consists of moneys referred to in paragraph (b) of
section 8B of this Act shall be expended on
the construction of rural arterial roads.

(3) So much of the moneys paid into the Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund as consists of moneys referred to in paragraph (c) of section 8B of this Act shall be expended on the construction and maintenance of rural roads, other than rural arterial roads.

( 4 )

(4) So much of the moneys paid into the Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund as consists of moneys referred to in paragraph (d) of section 8B of this Act shall be expended on road planning and research for the time being approved by the Common­ wealth Minister.

(5) There shall be payable from the Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund to the Treasurer such amounts as the Treasurer determines having regard to any repayment of any amount required to be made to the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Common­ wealth Act.

8D. (1) Notwithstanding any other provi­ sion of this Act, but subject to section 8c of this Act, any expenditure that might be made from any other fund under this Act may be made from the Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund in lieu of that other fund.

(2) Any moneys in the Common­ wealth Aid Roads Fund may be transferred to any other fund under this Act.

(d) by omitting paragraph (e) of subsection one of section ten and by inserting in lieu thereof the following paragraph :—

(e)	moneys transferred from the Common­
wealth Aid Roads Fund in pursuance of
subsection two of section 8D of this Act;

(e) by omitting subsection (1B) of section twelve and by inserting in lieu thereof the following subsections :—•

(1B) So much of the County of Cumberland Main Roads Fund as consists of moneys paid into that fund in pursuance of paragraph (e) of subsection one of section ten of this Act shall be expended in accordance with section 8c of this Act.

( I B A )

(IBA ) The County of Cumberland Main Roads Fund may be used for road planning and research in such manner as the Commissioner determines.

(f) by omitting paragraph (d) of subsection one of section twenty and by inserting in lieu thereof the following paragraph :—

(d) moneys transferred from the Common­ wealth Aid Roads Fund in pursuance of subsection two of section 8D of this Act;

(g) by omitting subsection (1B) of section twenty-one and by inserting in lieu thereof the following subsections :—

(1B) SO much of the Country Main Roads Fund as consists of moneys paid into that fund in pursuance of paragraph (d) of subsection one of section twenty of this Act shall be expended in accordance with section 8c of this Act.

(IBA) The Country Main Roads Fund may be used for road planning and research in such manner as the Commissioner determines.

(h) by omitting Part VA ;

(i) (i) by omitting paragraph (b) of subsection one

of section twenty-nine and by inserting in lieu

thereof the following paragraph :—

(b) moneys transferred from the

Commonwealth Aid Roads Fund in pursuance of subsection two of section 8D of this Act;

(ii)

(ii)   by omitting subsection (2A) of the same section and by inserting in lieu thereof the following subsection : —

(2A) SO much of the Developmental Roads Fund as consists of moneys paid into that fund in pursuance of paragraph (b) of subsection one of this section shall be expended in accordance with section 8c of this Act.

(j) by omitting section 35A.

(2) The amendments made by subsection one of this section shall be deemed to have taken effect upon the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.

4. (1) The Sydney Harbour Bridge (Administration)

Act, 1932, is amended—

(a) by omitting section five and by inserting in lieu thereof the following section

5. (1) The Commissioner for Main Roads

may levy tolls and charges in respect of all

vehicles or of any class or classes of vehicles
travelling across the Bridge.

(2) The amount of the tolls and charges, and the class or classes of vehicles, referred to in subsection one of this section, and the method of collection of those tolls and charges, shall be as prescribed.

(3)

(3) Without affecting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this section, the Commissioner for Main Roads may levy tolls and charges in respect of vehicles the drivers of which are travelling across the Bridge in a prescribed direction or are travelling across the Bridge by reference to such other circum­ stances as may be prescribed, without levying tolls and charges in respect of other vehicles.

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection one of section thirteen the word "traffic" and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "vehicles".

(2) The amendments made by subsection one of this section shall take effect upon a day to be appointed by the Governor in that behalf and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

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