8Meaning of road and road-related area

8 Meaning of road and road-related area

8 Meaning of road and road-related area

(1) For the purposes of this Law, a road is an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or has as 1 of its uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles.

Examples of areas that are roads—

bridges, cattle grids, culverts, ferries, fords, railway crossings, tunnels or viaducts

(2) For the purposes of this Law, a road-related area is—

(a) an area that divides a road; or

(b) a footpath, shared path or nature strip adjacent to a road; or

(c) a shoulder of a road; or

(d) a bicycle path or another area that is not a road and that is open to the public and designated for use by cyclists or animals; or

(e) an area that is not a road and that is open to, or used by, the public for driving, riding or parking motor vehicles.

(3) Also, an area is a road or road-related area for the purposes of this Law or a particular provision of this Law as applied in a participating jurisdiction, if the area is declared by a law of that jurisdiction to be a road or road-related area for the purposes of this Law or the particular provision.

(4) In this section—

bicycle path means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by riders of bicycles.

footpath means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by pedestrians.

shared path means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by both the riders of bicycles and pedestrians.

shoulder, of a road—

(a) includes any part of the road that is not designed to be used by motor vehicles in travelling along the road; and

(b) includes—

(i) for a kerbed road-any part of the kerb; and

(ii) for a sealed road-any unsealed part of the road, and any sealed part of the road outside an edge line on the road; but

(c) does not include a bicycle path, footpath or shared path.