288Driving on a path

288 Driving on a path

(1) A driver (except the rider of a bicycle) must not drive on a path, unless subrule (2) or (3) applies to the driver.

Offence provision.

Note: Bicycle is defined in the dictionary, and path is defined in subrule (6).

(2) A driver may drive on a path if the driver is: (a) driving on a part of the path indicated by information on or with a traffic control device as a part where vehicles may drive; or (b) driving on the path to enter or leave, by the shortest practicable route, a road‑related area or adjacent land and there is not a part of the path indicated by information on or with a traffic control device as a part where vehicles may drive; or (c) permitted to drive on the path under another law of this jurisdiction.

Note: Adjacent land, traffic control device and with are defined in the dictionary, and road‑related area is defined in rule 13.

(3) A driver may drive a motorised wheelchair on a path if: (a) the unladen mass of the wheelchair is not over 110 kilograms; and (b) the wheelchair is not travelling over 10 kilometres per hour; and (c) because of the driver’s physical condition, the driver has a reasonable need to use a wheelchair.

Note: Wheelchair is defined in the dictionary.

(4) A driver on a path (except the rider of a bicycle, or a driver driving on the path to enter a road from a road‑related area or adjacent land, or to enter a road‑related area or adjacent land from a road) must give way to all other road users, and to animals, on the path.

Offence provision.

Note 1: Road user is defined in rule 14.

Note 2: For this subrule, give way means the driver must slow down and, if necessary, stop to avoid a collision—see the definition in the dictionary.

Note 3: Rules 74 and 75 deal with drivers giving way when crossing a footpath or other path to enter or leave a road‑related area or adjacent land.

Note 4: Rules 249 to 251 deal with bicycle riders riding on footpaths, separated paths and shared paths.

(5) This rule does not apply to the rider of an animal riding the animal on a footpath.

Note 1: Footpath is defined in the dictionary.

Note 2: The rider of an animal on a footpath must give way to a pedestrian on the path—see rule 302.

(6) In this rule:

path means a bicycle path, footpath or shared path.