ROAD TRAFFIC CODE 2000 - REG 203
ROAD TRAFFIC CODE 2000 - REG 203
203 . Pedestrians travelling along carriageway (except in or on wheeled recreational device, motorised scooter or wheeled toy)
(1) A pedestrian must
not proceed along a carriageway where there is a footpath or nature strip
adjacent to the carriageway and it is in a fit condition for use.
Modified penalty: 1 PU
(2) A pedestrian must
not proceed along a carriageway abreast of more than one other pedestrian,
except in a procession or parade authorised under a written law.
Modified penalty: 1 PU
(3) A pedestrian
travelling along a carriageway —
(a)
must, where practicable, travel on the carriageway, or on the side of the
carriageway, used by vehicles travelling in the opposite direction and keep as
far to the right side of the carriageway as is practicable; and
(b) must
not travel on the carriageway alongside more than one other pedestrian or
vehicle travelling on the carriageway in the same direction as the pedestrian,
unless the pedestrian is overtaking other pedestrians.
Modified penalty: 1 PU
(4) Despite
subregulation (3), where a vehicle approaches a pedestrian on a
carriageway, on the same side as the pedestrian, then the pedestrian must, if
possible, immediately move off the carriageway, and must not move back onto
the carriageway, until the vehicle has passed him or her.
Modified penalty: 1 PU
(5) Nothing in this
regulation applies in respect of —
(a) a
carriageway from which vehicles are for the time being excluded; or
(b) a
carriageway that is a shared zone.
(6) In this
regulation —
pedestrian does not include a person in or on a
wheeled recreational device, a motorised scooter or wheeled toy.
[Regulation 203 amended: Gazette
25 Jan 2001 p. 593; 29 Dec 2006 p. 5924;
15 May 2018 p. 1532; SL 2020/253 r. 28.]