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Road Board. A body established by the Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909 (s. 7), of persons appointed by the Treasury. The Ministry of Transport now exercises its powers and carries out its duties through the Ministry's Roads Depart-ment....
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Trunk Roads Act, 1936
Trunk Roads Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 5), provides that the Minister of Transport shall be the highway authority for the principal roads in Great Britain which constitute the national system of routes for through traffic. Such roads which become Trunk Roads are set out in the Schedule.By s. 13 road means a highway and includes any part of a highway and any prepared road and any bridge over which a highway passes or a proposed road is intended to pass, and trunk road shall be construed accordingly...
Road
Road, (1) a way or passage (see HIGHWAYS; WAY); (2) a secure place for the anchoring of vessels.Road, includes--(i) all lands appurtenant thereto,(ii) all approach roads, bridges, flyovers, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures or, over, along or across such roads, and(iii) all fences, trees, posts and boundary, two hundred -- metre and kilometre stones of such road,but does not include a National Highway. [Rajasthan Road Development Act, 2002, s. 2(d)]...
State Road
State Road, means all public roads within the State and includes:(i) all lands appurtenant thereto;(ii) all approach roads, bridges, flyovers, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriage-ways and other structures on, over, along or across such roads; and(iii) all fences, trees, posts and boundaries, two hundred meter and kilometer stones of such roads, but does not include a National Highway....
Turnpike-roads
Turnpike-roads, ways maintained out of tolls not paid by passengers. These did not fall within the operation of the Highway Act (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 50), but were regulated primarily by the local Acts relative to each particular road, which, though temporary, were, until about the middle of the present century, almost invariably renewed by the legislature from time to time as they were about to expire; and in the next place by statutes of a general description, of which the principal was the consolidating 3 Geo. 4, c. 126, applicable (with very few exceptions) to all turnpike-roads-that is, all roads maintained by tolls, and placed under the management of trustees or commissioners for a limited period of time. This Act, however, is repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1890, with the exception of such provisions as are applied to dis-turnpiked roads by the Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Acts of 1865 and 1870. There were at one time many thousand turnpike trusts. in 1864 they numbered...
Private road
Private road, 'private road' means any street, road, square, court alley or passage which is not a public road and includes a pathway made by the owner on premises of his own land to secure access to, or the convenient use of, such premises. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(45)]...
Road fund
Road fund. A fund established under s. 3 of the Roads Act, 1920, for dealing with moneys applicable to the improvement of roads received under the Act, and also under Part II. of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909. The Fund is administered by the Ministry of Transport in accordance with these Acts and regulations made by the Treasury....
Trade Boards
Trade Boards. The Trade Boards Act, 1909, as amended by the Trade Boards Act, 1918, applies to certain trades specified in the Schedule, and to such others as are brought within the Act by Order of the Board of Trade or by special Order of the Minister of Labour. The Board of Trade can establish Trade Boards with respect to such trades, and the Boards when established must fix minimum rates for both time work and piecework. Notice must be given of the minimum rates established, and such rates are obligatory on employers, who are placed under penalties if they fail to pay in accordance with such rates. s. 11 gives the constitution and proceedings of Trade Boards under this section:(1) The Board of Trade may make regulations with respect to the constitution of Trade Boards, which shall consist of members representing employers and members representing workers (in this Act referred to as representative members) in equal proportions and of the appointed members. Any such regulations may be...
off road
designed for or used for or taking place on trails and beaches etc instead of public roads as off road vehicles off road sports such as snowmobiling...
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