159Marked lanes required to be used by particular kinds of vehicles

159 Marked lanes required to be used by particular kinds of vehicles

(1) If information on or with a traffic sign applying to a length of road indicates that a vehicle of a particular kind must drive in a particular marked lane, a driver driving a vehicle of that kind on the length of road must drive in the indicated lane, unless the driver is: (a) avoiding an obstruction; or (b) obeying a traffic control device applying to the indicated lane; or (c) permitted to drive in the indicated lane and also another marked lane under another provision of the Australian Road Rules or under another law of this jurisdiction.

Offence provision.

Note 1: Length of road, marked lane, obstruction, traffic control device, traffic sign and with are defined in the dictionary.

Note 2: An overhead lane control device may require a driver to leave a marked lane—see rule 152.

Note 3: Drivers of certain long vehicles are permitted to use 2 marked lanes when turning at an intersection—see rule 28 (left turns) and rule 32 (right turns).

(2) A traffic sign mentioned in this rule that is on a road applies to the length of road beginning at the sign and ending at the nearest of the following: (a) a traffic sign or road marking on the road that indicates that the first traffic sign no longer applies; (b) the next intersection on the road; (c) if the road ends at a T–intersection or dead end—the end of the road.

Note 1: Intersection, road marking, T–intersection and traffic sign are defined in the dictionary.

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

Note: Examples of a traffic sign mentioned in the rule and a traffic sign indicating that the first traffic sign no longer applies

Note for diagrams: There is another permitted version of the trucks use left lane sign—see the diagrams in Schedule 3.