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Making a U-turn contrary to a no U-turn sign

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Schedule 3Australian Road Rules
Part 4Making turns
Division 4U-turns

39 Making a U-turn contrary to a no U-turn sign

(1)

A driver must not make a U-turn at a break in a dividing strip on a road if there is a no U-turn sign at the break in the dividing strip.

Offence provision.

Notes

1 Dividing strip is defined in the dictionary.

2 Rule 322(5) and (6) deal with the meaning of a traffic sign at a break in a dividing strip.

(2)

A driver must not make a U-turn on a length of road to which a

no U-turn sign applies.

Offence provision.

Note

Length of road is defined in the dictionary.

(3)

A no U-turn sign on a road (except a no U-turn sign at an intersection or at a break in a dividing strip) applies to the length of road beginning at the sign and ending at the nearer of the following:

(a)

the next intersection on the road;

(b)

if the road ends at a T-intersection or dead end – the end of the road.

Notes

1 Intersection and T-intersection are defined in the dictionary.

2 Rule 322(1) and (2) deal with the meaning of a traffic sign on a road.

No

U-turn signs

No U-turn sign
(Standard sign)

No U-turn sign
(Variable illuminated message sign)

Note for diagrams

There is another permitted version of each of these no U-turn signs – see the diagrams in

Schedule 3.

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Section 39 — Making a U-turn contrary to a no U-turn sign — Traffic Regulations, Schedule 3 - Australian Road Rules 1999 (Northern Territory) — Barrister AI