Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999
38Regulations about child safety
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38 Regulations about child safety (1) A regulation may make provision in relation to the duties of parents and other people responsible for children (other than children over 16 years and 9 months) in relation to the use of roads or road related areas (or vehicles on roads or road related areas). (2) A regulation may make provision in relation to the establishment and conduct of schemes to assist children to cross roads and road related areas safely, including the following: (a) enabling the road transport authority to conduct, or authorise other people to conduct, the schemes;
Traffic management Division 8.3 (b) enabling the road transport authority to— (i) amend or replace the schemes; and (ii) impose conditions on an authority to conduct schemes; and (iii) revoke an authority to conduct schemes; (c) the signs to be displayed at crossings and how the signs are to be displayed; (d) the placement of barriers across or partly across a road or road related area near a crossing; (e) conditions about the wearing or display of insignias, badges, belts or other articles of uniform by anyone taking part in crossing schemes; (f) that evidence the sign was displayed as prescribed by a person at or near a crossing is evidence in a proceeding that the displaying of the sign by the person was authorised; (g) anything else necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the carrying out of the scheme.