| 1.
| | This Act may be cited as the National Thoroughfares Act, No. 40 of 2008 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette (hereinafter referred to as "the appointed date"). |
| 2.
| | Application of
the Act. |
| 3.
| | Administration of the Act. |
| 4.
| | Declaration of a road as a public Road. |
| 5.
| | Powers of
officers and
servants. |
| 6.
| | Establishment of Road Network Development Advisory Council. |
| 7.
| | District Road
Network
Development
Co-ordinating
Committee. |
| 8.
| | Declaration of National Highways. |
| 9.
| | Declaration of Expressways &c,. |
| 10.
| | Requirements of a declaration under sections 8 and 9. |
| 11.
| | Minister to designate user fee national highways. |
| 12.
| | Authority to enter into agreements regarding user fee national highway. |
| 13.
| | Minister to prescribe fees to be levied for user fee national highway. |
| 14.
| | Driver of a vehicle on a user fee national highway to pay the fee. |
| 15.
| | Construction of a new road. |
| 16.
| | Construction of new National Highways. |
| 17.
| | Prohibition of development work within a road reservation. |
| 18.
| | Application of the Land Acquistion Act. |
| 19.
| | Acquisition of land vested in a Local Authority. |
| 20.
| | Special grants under Crown Land Ordinance. |
| 21.
| | Purchasing of land for re-settlement. |
| 22.
| | Determination to be made by a Committee. |
| 23.
| | Power of Authority to alienate land. |
| 24.
| | Direction and control of works to be vested in DirectorGeneral. |
| 25.
| | Minister may order temporary closure of a road, public road or a national highway. |
| 26.
| | No services to be carried on a road, a public road or a national highway without the permission of the Authority.
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| 27.
| | No public service, or private enterprise, to make use of a road a public road or a national highway without authority.
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| 28.
| | Executive Engineer may remove obstructions. |
| 29.
| | Certain persons to be empowered to survey, measure &c., a road, a public road or a national highway.
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| 30.
| | Right of entry to lands in the vicinity of a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 31.
| | Erection of temporary buildings on land for construction of a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 32.
| | Rubble and waste to be disposed on adjacent land. |
| 33.
| | Construction of temporary roads. |
| 34.
| | Cutting, lopping &c, of trees to facilitate construction of a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 35.
| | Erection of fences &c,. alongside a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 36.
| | Drains &c, to be kept open if so required for the construction of a road, a public road or a national highway.
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| 37.
| | Authorized officers to pay compensation fur damage to property. |
| 38.
| | Vexatious conduct of officers. |
| 39.
| | Owners or occupiers of land adjacent to a national highway have no right of access thereto |
| 40.
| | No building to commence on land adjacent to a road, a public road or a national highway without notice. |
| 41.
| | Obtaining permission for erection of temporary enclosures. |
| 42.
| | Building limits alongside a road, a public road or a national highway to be declared by Order. |
| 43.
| | Building approval only on obtaining licence of Executive Engineer. |
| 44.
| | Modification of building limit. |
| 45.
| | Procedure to be followed in case of erection of structures in contravention of section 42. |
| 46.
| | Determination of compensation in case of lands with buildings on it. |
| 47.
| | Valuation of buildings &c within building limits. |
| 48.
| | Acquisition of adjacent land for owners affected by building limits. |
| 49.
| | Application of the provisions of sections 42 to 48. |
| 50.
| | Obstruction, encroachment &c., or a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 51.
| | Survey to be prima facie proof. |
| 52.
| | Application or the provisions of the State Lands (Recovery of Possession) Act. |
| 53.
| | Prescription Ordinance not to apply to lands required for a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 54.
| | Protection of right to use a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 55.
| | Damaging a road, a public road or a national highway to be offence. |
| 56.
| | Painting pictures &c, along a road, a public road or a national highway without lawful excuse an offence.
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| 57.
| | Director General to impose temporary load restrictions on a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 58.
| | Damage and obstruction to foot walk by excavation &c,. |
| 59.
| | Obstruction of road, public road or national highway to be an offence. |
| 60.
| | Depositing of sand, timber &c,. on a road, a public road or a national highway to be an offence. |
| 61.
| | Removal of sand, stone, timber &c,. |
| 62.
| | Restriction of planting trees, shrubs in or near a carriageway. |
| 63.
| | Executive Engineer may grant permission to plant trees, shrubs, grass, plants &c,. |
| 64.
| | Depositing of dropping things or pitching. |
| 65.
| | Dropping earth, sand or stones &c,. on a road, a public road or a national highway to be an offence.
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| 66.
| | Erection of barriers &c,. across a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 67.
| | Preventing soil being washed onto a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 68.
| | Power to remove projections &c, across a road, a public road or a national highways. |
| 69.
| | Notice of commission of offence to be given to Executive Engineer. |
| 70.
| | Doors along a road, a public road or a national highways not to open outwards. |
| 71.
| | Cutting and felling of trees overhanging onto a road, a public road or a national highways. |
| 72.
| | Permitting animals to stray on a road, a public road or a national highways an offence. |
| 73.
| | Depositing or throwing anything onto a road, a public road or a national highway to be an offence. |
| 74.
| | Placing ropes across a road, a public road or a national highway to be an offence. |
| 75.
| | Executive Engineer may require occupier or premises to do certain acts. |
| 76.
| | Licence to be obtained for the erection of scaffoldings &c,. on road, a public road or a national highway.
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| 77.
| | Depositing of building materials &c,. along a road, a public road or a national highway to be
done with consent of the Executive Engineer. |
| 78.
| | Precautions to be taken when carrying out road works. |
| 79.
| | Prohibited users. |
| 80.
| | Maintenance of roads by community based organizations. |
| 81.
| | Language of notices. |
| 82.
| | Entering and leaving an expressway. |
| 83.
| | Stopping of vehicles. |
| 84.
| | Restriction on placing beams &c,. |
| 85.
| | Control of constructions &c,. |
| 86.
| | Power to restrict access to a road, a public road or a national highway. |
| 87.
| | Clearance of Executive Engineer essential. |
| 88.
| | Duty of Police officers and Grama Niladharis. |
| 89.
| | Regulations. |
| 90.
| | Repeal of Thoroughfares Ordinance and Transitional Provisions. |
| 91.
| | Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency. |
| 92.
| | Interpretation. |