52How are stock zones established?

52 How are stock zones established?

52 How are stock zones established?

(1) Permanent stock zones A roads authority may set aside the whole or any part of a public road as a permanent stock zone.

(2) A permanent stock zone is to be designated by a permanent stock zone sign exhibited at the entry to the zone to which it relates.

(3) The permanent stock zone sign is to be positioned so that—

(a) there is not less than 200 metres between the sign and the place where a vehicle being driven towards the stock would first encounter the stock, and

(b) the driver of a vehicle being driven towards the stock along the road is warned of the presence or likely presence of the stock a reasonable distance before the vehicle would first encounter the stock.

(4) Temporary stock zones A person who owns or has charge of stock that are grazing or walking on a public road may set aside the whole or part of that public road as a temporary stock zone.

(5) An occupier of land through which an unfenced public road passes must set aside that part of the road passing through the land as a temporary stock zone if the land is normally grazed by stock.

(6) A temporary stock zone is to be designated by a temporary stock zone sign exhibited at the entry point of the zone to which it relates.

(7) A temporary stock zone sign exhibited by a person referred to in subclause (4) is to be positioned so that there is not more than 5 kilometres, and not less than 200 metres, between the sign and the place where a vehicle being driven towards the stock would first encounter the stock.

(8) A temporary stock zone sign exhibited by a person referred to in subclause (5) is to be positioned so that the driver of a vehicle being driven towards the stock along the road is warned of the presence or likely presence of the stock a reasonable distance before the vehicle would first encounter the stock.

(9) The provisions of Part 20 of the Road Rules 2014 apply to a permanent stock zone sign or temporary stock zone sign in the same way as they apply to a traffic sign within the meaning of those Rules.

Note.

For example, rule 327 of the Road Rules 2014 which provides that the length of road to which a traffic sign on a road applies is worked out in the direction driven by a driver on the road who faces the sign before passing it.