317ATraffic control devices applying on school days

317A Traffic control devices applying on school days

(1) If information on or with a traffic control device indicates that it applies on school days, it only applies—

(a) on a declared school day; or

(b) on any day indicated to be a school day by information on or with the traffic control device.

Rule 317 provides that information on or with a traffic control device may indicate the times, days or circumstances when it applies or does not apply.

The following sign applies—

• on declared school days, but not on other days unless information on or with the sign indicates that it is a school day at that place; and

• at the times indicated on school days, but not at other times.

Note that a sign may have a different number on the sign—see rule 316(4) of these Rules.

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(2) For the avoidance of doubt, subrule (1) does not limit or extend the effect of a traffic control device that does not have other information on or with that traffic control device.

The following sign is not restricted to certain times or days and applies whenever it is displayed.

Narrow format no times

Rule 317A(3) def. of declared school day amended by S.R. No. 6/2018 rule 8.

declared school day means any day determined by the Minister administering the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 under regulation 13 of the Education and Training Reform Regulations 2017 to be a day on which a Government school is to be open for attendance by students, and that is not one of the following—

(a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or

(b) a day appointed under the Public Holidays Act 1993 as a public holiday in the place in which the traffic control device is located.

Different schools have different terms. For this reason, a declared school days period may include days or weeks when many schools are open although some are closed. For the same reason, information on or with a traffic control device may indicate that it is a school day at that particular place even though the day is not in a declared school days period because most other schools are closed at that time or is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.