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Roads (Scotland) Act 1984

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14Power to contribute to, or carry out, work on private roads

(1)A local roads authority may, if they think fit, pay the whole or any part of any expenditure incurred by a person in making up or maintaining a private road; and may, without prejudice to section 15 of this Act, at their own expense carry out any repair which they consider necessary in relation to a private road after giving such notice as is reasonable in the circumstances.

(2)For the avoidance of doubt—

(a)a local roads authority do not incur responsibility for making up or maintenance of the private road by reason only of their acting under subsection (1) above ;

(b)the carrying out of work by a local roads authority under subsection (1) above does not create any implication that the private road, on completion of the work, is of a standard satisfactory to the authority for the purposes of section 16(1)(6) of this Act.

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