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( 1 ) The Highway Authority may, if it is considered essential in the interests of safety or convenience of traffic, regulate or divert any existing right of access to a highway across land lying between the control line and the highway boundary : Provided that the existing right of access shall not be diverted until alternative access has been given. ( 2 ) Where the existing right of access is diverted, the point at which alternative access is given to the highway shall not be unreasonably distant from the existing point of access. ( 3 ) The Highway Authority shall, by notification in the Official Gazette , publish the date on which the existing right of access has been diverted and alternative access has been given.