Road Safety Road Rules 2017

The driver of a vehicle must not stop on a length of road or in an area to which a no parking sign applies, unless the driver—

is dropping off, or picking up, passengers or goods; and

does not leave the vehicle unattended; and

completes the dropping off, or picking up, of the passengers or goods, and drives on, as soon as possible and, in any case, within the required time after stopping.

For this rule, a driver leaves a vehicle unattended if the driver leaves the vehicle so the driver is over 3 metres from the closest point of the vehicle.

In this rule—

if information on or with the sign indicates a time—the indicated time; or

if there is no indicated time—2 minutes; or

if there is no indicated time, or the indicated time is less than 5 minutes, and rule 206 applies to the driver—5 minutes.