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STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 165

Duty to take care at worksites and power to prevent traffic

165 Duty to take care at worksites and power to prevent traffic

(1) During the progress of works undertaken by the Coordinator-General the Coordinator-General—
(a) shall take proper precautions against accident and to prevent injury to land adjoining the site of the works or to buildings and structures on such land; and
(b) shall cause the site of the works to be adequately lighted and guarded during the hours of darkness; and
(c) may cause such barricades to be erected across or in any road as the Coordinator-General thinks fit and thereby prevent the passage of traffic.
(2) A person shall not take down, remove or alter the position of any barricade erected by or on behalf of the Coordinator-General or extinguish or move any light placed by the Coordinator-General or on his or her behalf save under the authority of the Coordinator-General.



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