PART IVIMPROVEMENT AND SAFETY OF ROADS

Improvement of roads

General power of improvement43

1

Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Department may carry out any work for the improvement of a road where it appears to the Department expedient to do so for the purposes of facilitating road traffic.

2

In this Article “improvement” (without prejudice to the generality of that expression) includes—

a

the widening, re-aligning and re-shaping of roads; and

b

the laying out, planting, maintenance and protection of trees, shrubs and grass margins in and beside roads.