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• Highways 
• 1 Short title
• PART I Preliminary
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Duties of Chief Technical Officer with respect to Highways
  • 3 Duties of Officer
  • 4 Officer may appoint committees
• PART III Provisions relating to all Highways to which Act Applies
  • 5 Part III to apply to highways to which Act applies
  • 6 Officer to have general superintendence of highways
  • 7 Officer may permit erection of poles for telephone wires at side of highways and may erect refuges
  • 8 Provisions for widening highway
  • 9 Crown authorised to purchase land and buildings affected by the taking of land for purposes of section 8 instead of paying compensation
  • 10 Minister for Lands authorised to sell land or property acquired under Act
  • 11 Abandonment etc. of highways
  • 12 Removal of encroachments on highways
  • 13 Removal of things placed on highways
  • 14 Exception in favour of persons erecting or repairing buildings near highways
  • 15 No steam engine to be erected within 50 yards of highways unless screened
  • 16 No wells within 30 feet of highways unless enclosed
  • 17 No mining operations, etc., within 20 feet of highways without permission
  • 18 Removal or repair of walls and dangerous buildings overhanging highways
  • 18A Cultivation of land adjoining highway
  • 19 Officer may require execution of works in public interest
  • 19A Appeals
  • 19B Power of entry
  • 19C Exemption from liability
  • 19D Payment into Consolidated Fund
  • 20 Injury to highways
  • 21 Gas or water pipes laid under highways
• PART IV Provisions applicable where all Highways in any Parish are under Control of Officer
  • 22 Provisions of Part IV to apply in respect of every parish
  • 23 Payment of sums collected in relation to highways
  • 24 Wells and dams for taking off storm water to be under control of Officer
  • 25 Roads to church and market
  • 26 Repair of private roads used by the public
  • 27 Repair of new highways
  • 28 Officer to account to Auditor-General
  • 29 Officer to keep books of account
• PART V General
  • 30 Application of enactments to highways to which Act applies
  • 31 Certificate of Officer prima facie evidence that highway is highway to which Act applies
  • 32 Expenses of Minister or Officer, how defrayed
  • 33 Minister may delegate to Officer
  • 34 Regulations
• PART VI Provisions relating to Parts VII to X
  • 35 Interpretation of Parts VII to X
• PART VII Offences relating to Highways
  • 36 Penalty for placing clothes on adjoining walls or on ground within 10 yards or on balconies
  • 37 No playing on loud musical instruments, appearing masked, or taking part in marches or processions on highways without a permit
  • 38 Applications for permits
  • 39 Minister to make regulations in respect of section 37
  • 40 Penalty for breach of section 37
  • 41 Arrest of offenders under section 37
  • 42 No firearms to be discharged within 100 yards of highways except on lawful and necessary occasion
  • 43 Prohibition against fireworks on highways
  • 44 Disturbance on, dispersing of mobs from and indecent exposure of person on or near, highways
• PART VIII Marking of Carts and Cycles driven on Highways
  • 45 All carts before being driven on a highway, to be marked
  • 46 Provisions governing licensing of cycles
  • 47 Cart improperly marked may be seized, etc.
  • 48 Penalty on driver not being owner of a cart improperly marked
  • 49 Penalty for concealing marks on cart
  • 50 Exemption from penalty
• PART IX Licensing of Vehicles and Animals
  • 51 Annual licence for keeping of vehicles or taxable animals
  • 52 Treasurer may decline to grant a licence to an unknown person
  • 53 Who to be deemed the owner
  • 54 Ticket to be affixed to every vehicle other than a cart
  • 55 Name and address of owner to be stated on request
  • 56 Penalty for not having licence
  • 57 Exemptions
  • 58 Recovery of penalties
  • 59 Publication of lists of licensed persons
  • 60 Examination before a magistrate of persons suspected of infringing section 51
• PART X Miscellaneous
  • 61 Tramways allowed to be laid across highways subject to conditions
  • 62 Repair of roads opened up
  • 63 Offences
  • 64 Recovery and disposal of penalties
  • 65 Service of summons when owner absent