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Australian Capital Territory National Land (Unleased) Ordinance 2022

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.

Dated 31 March 2022

  David Hurley
  Governor‑General

By His Excellency's Command

Nola Marino
Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories
Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Simplified outline of this Ordinance
5 Definitions
6 Application and administration of Ordinance
7 Interaction with Territory Acts
8 Administrative arrangements with Territory
Part 2—Public roads
Division 1—What is a public road?
9 Meaning of public road
Division 2—Creation and alteration of public roads
10 Unleased National Land may be declared as public road
11 Fixing or changing level of public road
12 Identification of public road boundaries
13 Retrospective amendment of notifiable instruments under this Part
14 No liability in relation to alignment of public road
Division 3—Temporary measures relating to public roads
15 Temporary closing of public roads
16 Approval to use temporarily closed public road
17 Use of temporarily closed public road without approval
18 Minister may make temporary public road
Division 4—Permanent closure of public roads
19 Notice of intention to permanently close public road
20 Permanent closure of public road
Division 5—No rights‑of‑way by user
21 No right‑of‑way by user against Commonwealth etc.
Part 3—Protection and management of unleased National Land
Division 1—Direction to carry out drainage works
22 Direction to construct surface water drain
23 Contravention of a drainage direction
24 Repair of damage and construction of drains by Minister
Division 2—Damage to public National Land
25 Direction to repair damage to public National Land
26 Contravention of repair damage direction
27 Interference with or damage to Commonwealth property
28 Commonwealth may repair damage
Division 3—Signs on or adjacent to public National Land
29 Placing of signs on or adjacent to public National Land
Division 4—Trees and other plants affecting public National Land
30 Direction to prune tree etc. overhanging public National Land
31 Contravention of plant pruning direction
32 Pruning of tree etc. by Commonwealth
33 Direction to remove tree etc. endangering public safety on public National Land
34 Contravention of plant removal direction
35 Removal of tree etc. by Commonwealth
Division 5—Removal and disposal of objects on unleased National Land
36 Object removal directions—unleased National Land
37 Object removal directions—exceptions
38 Removal of objects by the Commonwealth
39 Disposal of objects by the Commonwealth
40 Retention area
Division 6—Temporary closing of public National Land to traffic
41 Minister may temporarily close public National Land to traffic
Division 7—Emergency management
42 Emergency