s.5Responsibilities, functions and duties of Authority
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Section 5Part 2 — Establishment and Administration of National Roads Authority

Responsibilities, functions and duties of Authority

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The Authority shall be responsible for the administration, management, control, development and maintenance of public roads and related facilities.
For the purposes of subsection (1), the Authority shall —
plan, design, construct, develop, maintain, protect and administer public roads and related road works;
subject to the Electricity Act (2008 Revision), be responsible for ensuring the installation, repair, maintenance and operation of works for the supply, transmission and distribution of electricity in relation to public roads (including street lighting) in accordance with standards required by the Authority;
be responsible for ensuring the repair or restoration of public roads that have been opened or broken up under the Electricity Act (2008 Revision) or any other law, and the repair or restoration of such public roads shall be in accordance with standards required by the Authority;
maintain and preserve such records relating to its functions as it considers expedient;
maintain and update a list of public roads;
carry out, on a permanent basis, such necessary engineering, traffic and economic studies as it may consider necessary for the maintenance and improvement of public roads;
implement a maintenance management system for planning, organising, directing and controlling routine and periodic maintenance activities performed by employees of the Authority or through independent contractors;
carry out, either by its employees or through contracts with qualified consultants, location and design studies (including right-of-way requirements) necessary for proposed public road improvement or rehabilitation projects and prepare corresponding construction plans, specifications, cost estimates and other documents required for proper tendering of the proposed works;
subject to any law for the time being in force, tender, let and administer contracts for public road improvement and rehabilitation projects and for public road maintenance activities for which contracting is considered by the Authority to be cost effective or otherwise advantageous;
carry out, either through its employees or through independent contractors, the necessary routine periodic and emergency public road maintenance activities in accordance with the service level of maintenance established for each class or type of public road;
keep adequate records and operate a management information system which provides the managers with timely and accurate information on commitments and expenditure for works and services for which the managers are responsible;
carry out a comprehensive continuing programme of professional staff development and appropriate skills training for non-professional staff;
establish and operate facilities for the testing of materials in connection with the construction and the maintenance of public roads;
supervise work contracted out under this Act;
operate public road management systems;
acquire, hire and improve property required for the exercise and performance of the responsibilities, powers, duties and functions of the Authority and to dispose of such property, provided that the Authority may only acquire or dispose of immovable property with the consent of the Cabinet and subject to the provisions of the Governor (Vesting of Lands) Act (2005 Revision);
set operational priorities with regard to construction, upgrading, rehabilitation and maintenance of public roads;
provide to the Minister advice on —
the adequacy of the funding provided to the Authority from the Road Fund for financing the maintenance and construction of public roads;
the need to develop new, or abolish or amend existing, financing instruments for the Road Fund; and
the optimal level of Authority revenue from the Road Fund in the context of other revenue sources of the Authority; and
perform such other responsibilities, functions and duties as may be assigned to it by this or any other law.
Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2), the Authority has power to carry on any activity which appears to it to be requisite, advantageous or convenient for or in connection with the performance of its responsibilities, functions or duties.
The Authority shall perform its responsibilities, functions and duties through the Managing Director.
The Board shall issue, to the Managing Director, policy directions with respect to any matters for which the Managing Director has responsibility under this Act.

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public roadsAuthorityRoad FundManaging Director

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