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ROAD TRAFFIC CODE 2000 - REG 130

ROAD TRAFFIC CODE 2000 - REG 130

130 .         Riding certain vehicles alongside more than 1 other rider

        (1)         The rider of a motor cycle, moped, bicycle or electric rideable device must not ride on a carriageway that is not a multi‑laned carriageway alongside more than one other rider, unless the rider is overtaking the other riders.

        Modified penalty: 1 PU

        (2)         The rider of a motor cycle, moped, bicycle or electric rideable device must not ride in a marked lane on a carriageway alongside more than one other rider, unless the rider is overtaking the other riders or one of the riders is the rider of a motor cycle who is lane filtering in accordance with regulation 130B.

        Modified penalty: 1 PU

        (3)         The rider of a bicycle or electric rideable device must not ride on a path alongside another rider, unless the rider is overtaking the other rider.

        Modified penalty: 1 PU

        (4)         If the rider of a motor cycle, moped, bicycle or electric rideable device is riding on a carriageway that is not a multi‑lane carriageway alongside another rider, or in a marked lane alongside another rider in the marked lane, the rider must, unless one of the riders is the rider of a motor cycle who is lane filtering in accordance with regulation 130B, ride not over 1.5 m from the other rider.

        Modified penalty: 1 PU

        (5)         In this regulation —

        moped means a motor cycle that has a propelling engine having a piston displacement not exceeding 50 mL and that is designed so as not to be capable of a speed exceeding 50 km/h, whether or not it is also capable of being propelled as a pedal cycle, but does not include a power assisted pedal cycle;

        motor cycle does not include —

            (a)         a 2‑wheeled motor vehicle with a sidecar attached to it that is supported by a third wheel; or

            (b)         a motor vehicle with 3 wheels that is ridden in the same way as a motor vehicle with 2 wheels.

        [Regulation 130 amended: Gazette 13 Nov 2009 p. 4591; SL 2020/253 r. 19; SL 2021/200 r. 38.]