Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 165

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.