Part II Private Roads
14 Power 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)(b) of this Act.