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ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 99B

99B—Wheeled recreational devices and wheeled toys

        (1)         A person must not ride a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy on a road without due care or attention or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road.

        (2)         A person must not, on a footpath or other road-related area, ride a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy abreast of a vehicle or another wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy.

        (3)         A person who is riding a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy on a footpath or other road-related area must, if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of averting danger, give warning (by a warning device or other means) to pedestrians or other persons using the footpath or other road-related area.

        (4)         A road authority incurs no civil liability because of an act or omission on its part in the design, construction, maintenance or management of a road to take account of the fact that the users or potential users of the road include riders of wheeled recreational devices or wheeled toys.

        (5)         In this section—

"management" of a road includes placement, design, construction or maintenance of traffic control devices, barriers, trees or other objects or structures on the road;

"road authority" means—

            (a)         the Minister; or

            (b)         the Commissioner of Highways; or

            (c)         a council; or

            (d)         any body or person in whom the care, control or management of a road is vested.



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