TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2009 - REG 168 No parking signs

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ROAD RULES) REGULATION 2009 - REG 168

168 No parking signs

(1) The driver of a vehicle must not stop on a length of road or in an area to which a no parking sign applies, unless the driver—

(a) is dropping off, or picking up, passengers or goods; and

(b) does not leave the vehicle unattended; and

(c) completes the dropping off, or picking up, of the passengers or goods, and drives on, as soon as possible and, in any case, within the required time after stopping.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) For this section, a driver leaves a vehicle
"unattended" if the driver leaves the vehicle so the driver is over 3m from the closest point of the vehicle.

(3) In this section—


"required time" means—

(a) if information on or with the sign indicates a time—the indicated time; or

(b) if there is no indicated time—2 minutes; or

(c) if there is no indicated time, or the indicated time is less than 5 minutes, and section 206 applies to the driver—5 minutes.

Examples of no parking signs—