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ROAD TRANSPORT (ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2017 (NO 43 OF 2017) - REG 23

Speed limit in school zone

    (1)     The speed limit applying to a driver for any length of road in a school zone is the number of kilometres per hour indicated by the number on the school zone sign on a road, or the road, into the zone.

    (2)     In this regulation:

"school zone" means—

        (a)     if there is a school zone sign and an end school zone sign, or a speed limit sign with a different number on the sign, on a road and there is no intersection on the length of road between the signs—that length of road; or

        (b)     if there is a school zone sign on a road that ends in a dead end and there is no intersection, nor a sign mentioned in paragraph (a), on the length of road beginning at the sign and ending at the dead end—that length of road; or

        (c)     in any other case—the network of roads in an area with—

              (i)     a school zone sign on each road into the area, indicating the same number; and

              (ii)     an end school zone sign, or a speed limit sign indicating a different number, on each road out of the area.

    (3)     In subsection (2) (c):

"road" does not include a road related area.



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