• Specific Year
    Any

AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES - REG 240

AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES - REG 240

240—Wheeled recreational devices and toys not to be used on certain roads

        (1)         A person must not travel in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy on—

            (a)         a road with a dividing line or median strip; or

            (b)         a road on which the speed limit is greater than 50 kilometres per hour; or

            (c)         a one-way road with more than 1 marked lane.

Offence provision.

SA NOTE—

For South Australia, see regulation 30A(13) of the Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014 .

Note—

"Dividing line", "marked lane", "median strip" and "one-way road" are defined in the dictionary.

        (2)         A person must not travel in or on a wheeled recreational device—

            (a)         on a road that is declared, under another law of this jurisdiction, to be a road on which wheeled recreational devices are prohibited; or

            (b)         on a road at night; or

            (c)         on a road at any other time if another law of this jurisdiction prohibits wheeled recreational devices from being on all roads, or that road, at that time.

Offence provision.

SA NOTE—

For South Australia, see regulations 29 and 30A(12) of the Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014 .

Note—

"Night" is defined in the dictionary.

        (3)         A person must not travel in or on a wheeled toy—

            (a)         on a road that is declared, under another law of this jurisdiction, to be a road on which wheeled toys are prohibited; or

            (b)         on a road at a particular time if another law of this jurisdiction prohibits wheeled toys on all roads, or that road, at that time.

Offence provision.

SA NOTE—

For South Australia, see regulation 29 of the Road Traffic (Road Rules—Ancillary and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2014 .

        (3A)         Subrules (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who is crossing a road in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy, if the person—

            (a)         crosses the road by the shortest safe route; and

            (b)         does not stay on the road longer than necessary to cross the road safely; and

            (c)         is not prohibited, under another law of this jurisdiction, from crossing the road in or on the wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy.

        (4)         In subrules (1) and (2)(b)—

"road" does not include a road-related area but includes any shoulder of the road.