Section 1: Minister to control, etc., Federal Highways

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, all Federal highways shall on the commencement of this Act, be under the management, direction and control of the Minister charged with responsibility for roads (in this Act referred to as "the Minister").
(2) The Minister shall have responsibility-
(a) for the planning (including research and designing) of Federal highways;
(b) for their construction and maintenance;
(c) for the supervision of users thereof; and
(d) for the regulation of traffic thereon.
(3) The Federal government may, subject to the provisions of this Act, delegate to the government of a State in respect of traffic on Federal highways all or any of the powers in subsection (5) of this section as may be expedient in the circumstances; and such powers may further be delegated by the government of a State to any local government within that State.
(4) Where any power is delegated pursuant to subsection (3) of this section, it shall be additional to and not in derogation of any other power of the police in respect of road traffic, and the power may accordingly be sub-delegated to and be exercised by any police officer.
(5) The powers referred to in subsection (3) of this section, are-
(a) restriction on type or class of vehicle and vehicle inspection;
(b) road diversion or closure where necessary as a temporary measure;
(c) prohibition of parking or waiting as the case may be on Federal highways or on specific parking or waiting places and on space reasonably required for vehicles approaching or leaving premises on or immediately adjoining a Federal highway;
(d) prohibition of erection of hoardings and other forms of advertising within a distance of three hundred feet from the middle line of any road formation in the vicinity of a Federal highway or within the distance aforesaid from the middle line of the Federal highway;
(e) generally ensuring the uninterrupted flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
(6) Penalties prescribed for the infringement of any regulations made by the Minister under the power conferred by this Act shall, apply and have effect in respect of powers delegated under and for the purposes of this section, to the like extent as if the regulations had been made contemporaneously with the operation of any such delegation as aforesaid under this section and had so provided.