Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2009 - REG 132

132 Keeping to the left of the centre of a road or the dividing line

(1) A driver on a two-way road without a dividing line or median strip must drive to the left of the centre of the road, except as permitted under section 133 , 139 (1) or 139A (1) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) A driver on a road with a dividing line (except 2 continuous dividing lines) must drive to the left of the dividing line, except as permitted under section 134 , 139 (2) or 139A (2) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2A) A driver on a road with a single continuous dividing line, a single continuous dividing line to the left of a broken dividing line or 2 parallel continuous dividing lines must not drive across the dividing lines to perform a U-turn.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) A driver on a road with 2 continuous dividing lines must drive to the left of the dividing lines, except as permitted under section 139 (2) or 139A (2) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(4) This section, and sections 133 , 134 , 139 (1) and (2) and 139A apply to a service road to which a two-way sign applies as if it were a separate road, but do not apply to any other service road.

(5) In this section—

"road" does not include a footpath, nature strip, bicycle path, separated footpath or shared path.

Example of two-way sign—

Examples for subsection (2)—

Examples for subsection (2A)—