The Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993

Cattle-grids

63.—(1) The Department may, if it is satisfied that it is expedient to do so, provide and maintain a cattle-grid in a road or partly in a road and partly in adjoining land.

(2) Where the Department provides a cattle-grid under this Article it shall also provide facilities for the passage under proper control of animals and all other traffic unable to pass over the cattle-grid, being traffic entitled by law to use the road in which the grid is placed.

(3) A cattle-grid and any facilities provided by the Department under this Article shall, when completed, vest in and be maintainable by the Department.

(4) The Department may alter or improve a cattle-grid or facilities provided under this Article.

(5) The Department may enter into an agreement with any person for the making by him of a contribution (by a single payment or periodical payments) of such amount as may be specified in the agreement towards the expenses of the Department in providing and maintaining a cattle-grid under this Article.

(6) An agreement under paragraph (5) may include such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the parties to be necessary, including provisions for the repayment of, if the cattle-grid is later removed, a specified proportion of a contribution towards the installation of the cattle-grid.

(7) The Department may, in determining whether or not to provide a cattle-grid, have regard to the extent to which persons who will receive special benefit from it are willing to enter into agreements under paragraph (5).

(8) In this Article “cattle-grid” means a device intended to prevent the passage of animals, or animals of a particular description, but to allow the passage of all or some other traffic, and includes any fence or other works necessary for securing the efficient operation of the device.