Road Rules 2014

(1) A driver approaching a children’s crossing must drive at a speed at which the driver can, if necessary, stop safely before the crossing.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Note.

Children’s crossing is defined in subrule (6).

(2) A driver approaching or at a children’s crossing must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the stop line at the crossing if—

(a) a hand-held stop sign is displayed at the crossing, or

(b) a pedestrian is on or entering the crossing.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Note 1.

Stop line is defined in the Dictionary.

Note 2.

Rule 322(3) and (4) deal with the meaning of a traffic control device at a place.

Note 3.

This subrule is not uniform with the corresponding subrule in rule 80 of the Australian Road Rules. Different rules may apply in other Australian jurisdictions.

(3) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a hand-held stop sign, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian on or entering the crossing and the holder of the sign—

(a) no longer displays the sign towards the driver, or

(b) otherwise indicates that the driver may proceed.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Note.

This subrule is not uniform with the corresponding subrule in rule 80 of the Australian Road Rules. Different rules may apply in other Australian jurisdictions.

(4) If a driver stops at a children’s crossing for a pedestrian, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian on or entering the crossing.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

Note.

This subrule is not uniform with the corresponding subrule in rule 80 of the Australian Road Rules. Different rules may apply in other Australian jurisdictions.

(5) For this rule, if a children’s crossing extends across a road with a dividing strip, the part of the children’s crossing on each side of the dividing strip is taken to be a separate children’s crossing.

Note.

Dividing strip is defined in the Dictionary.

(6) A children’s crossing is an area of a road—

(a) at a place with stop lines marked on the road, and—

(i) children crossing flags, or

(ii) children’s crossing signs and twin yellow lights, and

(b) indicated by—

(i) 2 red and white posts erected on each side of the road, or

(ii) 2 parallel continuous or broken lines on the road surface from one side of the road completely or partly across the road, and

(c) extending across the road between the posts or lines.

Note.

Twin yellow lights is defined in the Dictionary.

Example.

In this example, the driver must stop at the stop line because there are pedestrians on the children’s crossing.

Note.

Example 2 in rule 80 of the Australian Road Rules has not been reproduced because it is not relevant to this jurisdiction.