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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2009 - REG 288

Driving on a path

288 Driving on a path

(1) A driver (except the rider of a bicycle or a personal mobility device) must not drive on a path, unless subsection (2) applies to the driver.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2) A driver may drive on a path if the driver is—
(a) driving on a part of the path indicated by information on or with a traffic control device as a part where vehicles may drive; or
(b) driving on the path to enter or leave, by the shortest practicable route, a road-related area or adjacent land and there is not a part of the path indicated by information on or with a traffic control device as a part where vehicles may drive.
(4) A driver on a path (except the rider of a bicycle or a personal mobility device) must give way to all other road users, and to animals, on the path unless the driver is driving on the path
(a) to enter a road from a road-related area or adjacent land; or
(b) to enter a road-related area or adjacent land from a road.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(5) This section does not apply to the rider of an animal riding the animal on a footpath.
(6) In this section—

"path" means a bicycle path, footpath or shared path.



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