New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROADS ACT 1993 - SECT 38E

38E Effect of notice of closure

(1) On publication of the notice closing the council public road concerned--

(a) the road ceases to be a public road, and

(b) the rights of passage and access that previously existed in relation to the road are extinguished.

(2) The land comprising a former road--

(a) in the case of a public road that was previously vested in a council (other than a public road in respect of which no construction has ever taken place)--remains vested in the council, and

(b) in any other case--becomes (or, if previously vested in the Crown, remains) vested in the Crown as Crown land.