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AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES - REG 269

269—Opening doors and getting out of a vehicle etc

        (1)         A person must not get off, or out of, a moving vehicle, unless the person is engaged in the door-to-door delivery or collection of goods, or in the collection of waste or garbage, and the vehicle is not travelling over 5 kilometres per hour.

Offence provision.

Note 1—

"Vehicle" is defined in rule 15.

Note 2—

Rule 237 deals with persons getting on, or into, a moving vehicle.

        (2)         Subrule (1) does not apply to a person getting off a bicycle or animal.

        (3)         A person must not cause a hazard to any person or vehicle by opening a door of a vehicle, leaving a door of a vehicle open, or getting off, or out of, a vehicle.

Offence provision.

        (4)         The driver of a bus must not drive the bus unless the doors of the bus are closed while the bus is moving.

Offence provision.

Note—

"Bus" is defined in the dictionary.



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