288Driving on a path

288 Driving on a path

Rule 288(1) amended by S.R. No. 135/2021 rule 93(1)(a).

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

Note to rule 288(1) amended by S.R. No. 135/2021 rule 93(2).

Bicycle and electric scooter are defined in the dictionary. 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.

Adjacent land, traffic control device and with are defined in the dictionary. 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

Rule 288(3)(c) substituted by S.R. No. 121/2020 rule 11.

(c) the driver has a reasonable need to use a wheelchair—

(i) because of the driver's physical condition; or

(ii) for the purpose of training under the instruction or supervision of a registered health practitioner.

Wheelchair is defined in the dictionary.

Rule 288(4) amended by S.R. No. 135/2021 rule 93(1)(b).

(4) A driver on a path (except the rider of a bicycle, the rider of an electric scooter, 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.

1 Road user is defined in rule 14.

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.

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.