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.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 5 penalty units.

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

Note 2 See clause 8 of Part 1 of Schedule 6 for jurisdictional qualifications.

(3)  A driver may drive a motorised wheelchair on a path if –

(a) the unladen mass of the wheelchair is not over 150 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 1 Wheelchair is defined in the dictionary.

Note 2 Subrule (3)(a) sets the maximum unladen mass of the wheelchair as 150 kilograms. The equivalent paragraph in the Australian road rules sets the maximum unladen mass of the wheelchair as 110 kilograms.

(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.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.

Note 1 is defined in rule 14.