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ROAD TRANSPORT (ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2017 (NO 43 OF 2017) - REG 242

Travelling in or on wheeled recreational device or toy on footpath or shared path

    (1)     A person travelling in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy on a footpath or shared path must—

        (a)     keep to the left of the footpath or shared path unless it is impracticable to do so; and

        (b)     give way to any pedestrian (except a person travelling in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy) who is on the footpath or shared path.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

    (2)     In this regulation:

"shared path" means an area open to the public (except a separated footpath) that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by both the riders of bicycles and pedestrians, and includes a length of path for use by both bicycles and pedestrians beginning at a shared path sign or shared path road marking and ending at the nearest of the following:

        (a)     an end shared path sign or end shared path road marking;

        (b)     a no bicycles sign or no bicycles road marking;

        (c)     a bicycle path sign or bicycle path road marking;

        (d)     a road (except a road related area);

        (e)     the end of the path.

    (3)     In this section:

"end shared path road marking" means a shared path road marking with the word ‘end'.

"shared path road marking "means a road marking consisting of a pedestrian symbol above a bicycle symbol.



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