AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES - REG 221 Using hazard warning lights

This legislation has been repealed.

AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES - REG 221

221 Using hazard warning lights

The driver of a vehicle fitted with hazard warning lights must not use the hazard warning lights, or allow them to be used, unless:

(a) the vehicle is stopped and is obstructing, or is likely to obstruct, the path of other vehicles or pedestrians, or

(b) the vehicle is a slow-moving vehicle and is obstructing, or is likely to obstruct, the path of other vehicles or pedestrians, or

(c) the vehicle is stopped in an emergency stopping lane, or

(d) the driver stops the vehicle to sell a product (for example, ice creams) that may attract children onto the road, or

(e) the driver is driving in hazardous weather conditions (for example, fog or smoke), or

(f) the vehicle is a bus carrying children, and the driver stops the vehicle to drop off or pick up a child and is required or permitted to operate the hazard warning lights under another law of this jurisdiction, or

(g) the hazard warning lights are operating as part of an anti-theft device fitted to the vehicle.

: Offence provision.

Note 1 :
"Bus" and
"hazard warning lights" are defined in the dictionary, and
"emergency stopping lane" is defined in rule 95.

Note 2 :
"Driver" includes a person in control of a vehicle--see the definition of
"drive" in the dictionary.

Note 3 : A vehicle does not obstruct another vehicle only because the vehicle is stopped in traffic or is travelling more slowly than other vehicles--see the definition of
"obstruction" in the dictionary.