TRAFFIC REGULATIONS, SCHEDULE 3 - AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES 1999
68Stopping and giving way at a stop sign or stop line at other
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68 Stopping and giving way at a stop sign or stop line at other places (1) A driver approaching or at a place with a stop sign or stop line must stop and give way in accordance with this rule, unless the place is: (a) an intersection; or (b) a children's crossing; or (c) an area of a road that is not a children's crossing only because it does not have: (i) children crossing flags; or (ii) children's crossing signs and twin yellow lights; or (d) a level crossing; or (e) a place with twin red lights. 1 A stop sign at a break in a dividing strip dividing the part of the road used by the main body of moving vehicles from a service road. 2 A stop sign on an exit from a carpark where the exit joins the road. 1 Children's crossing is defined in rule 80, intersection, stop line and twin red lights are defined in the dictionary, and level crossing is defined in rule 120. 3 For the stopping and giving way rules applying to a driver at an intersection or level crossing with a stop sign or stop line, see rule 67 (intersections) and rule 121 (level crossings). Rule 80 deals with stopping at a stop line at a children's crossing. (2) The driver must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching: (a) the stop line; or (b) if there is no stop line – the stop sign.
Traffic Regulations – Australian Road Rules 59 (3) The driver must give way to any vehicle or pedestrian at or near the stop line or stop sign. sign at a break in a dividing strip Stopping and giving way at a stop sign where a carpark exit joins a road In each example, vehicle B must stop and give way to vehicle A.