304Direction by a police officer or authorised person

304 Direction by a police officer or authorised person

(1)  A person must obey any reasonable direction for the safe and efficient regulation of traffic given to the person by a police officer or authorised person, whether or not the person may contravene another provision of the Road Rules by obeying the direction.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 15 penalty units.

Note 1 Authorised person and police officer are defined in the dictionary.

Note 2 Rule 352 also deals with directions by police officers and authorised persons, being directions in connection with offences.

(2)  It is a defence to the prosecution of a person for an offence against a provision of the Road Rules if, at the time of the offence, the person was obeying a direction given to the person under subrule (1).