Road Rules 2014

(1) A person travelling in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy on a footpath or shared path must—

(a) keep to the left of the footpath or shared path unless it is impracticable to do so, and

(b) give way to any pedestrian (except a person travelling in or on a wheeled recreational device or wheeled toy) who is on the footpath or shared path.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Note 1.

Footpath is defined in the Dictionary.

Note 2.

For this rule, give way means the person must slow down and, if necessary, stop to avoid a collision—see the definition in the Dictionary.

Note 3.

Bicycle riders on footpaths and shared paths must give way to persons travelling in or on wheeled recreational devices or toys, as well as other pedestrians—see rule 250(2).

Note 4.

Another law of this jurisdiction may prescribe give way rules for persons travelling in or on wheeled recreational devices or toys.

(2) A shared path is an area open to the public (except a separated footpath) that is designated for, or has as one of its main uses, use by both the riders of bicycles and pedestrians, and includes a length of path for use by both bicycles and pedestrians beginning at a shared path sign or shared path road marking and ending at the nearest of the following—

(a) an end shared path sign or end shared path road marking,

(b) a no bicycles sign or no bicycles road marking,

(c) a bicycle path sign or bicycle path road marking,

(d) a road (except a road related area),

(e) the end of the path.

Note.

Bicycle is defined in rule 15–1, no bicycles road marking is defined in the Dictionary, road related area is defined in rule 13, and bicycle path road marking and separated footpath are defined in rule 239.

(3) In this rule—

end shared path road marking means a shared path road marking with the word “end”.

shared path road marking means a road marking consisting of a pedestrian symbol above a bicycle symbol.