Traffic Act 1909 Regulation relating to traffic control signs (1992-255) [GG No 62 of 22.5.1992] (NSW)

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TRAFFIC ACT 1909—REGULATION

(Relating to traffic control signs)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 62 of 22 May 1992]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Traffic Act 1909, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

WAL MURRAY

Minister for Roads

Commencement

1. This Regulation commences on 1 June 1992.

Amendment

2. The General Traffic (Pedestrian) Regulations 1937 are amended by

omitting Regulation 5A and the Schedule to that Regulation and by

inserting instead the following Regulation and Schedule:

Traffic control signs

5A. (1) There is hereby prescribed as a traffic control sign for the purposes of section 4D of the Act a standard, sign, notice or device in or similar to a form of diagram illustrated in the Schedule to this Regulation, with or without the addition of words, figures, abbreviations or symbols.

(2) Where:

(a) there appears on a traffic control sign which is erected or displayed on or near, or marked on, a footpath or a portion of public street a symbol in or similar to the form of the symbol illustrated in Diagram 1, 2 or 3 in the Schedule to this Regulation; and

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(b) there is a line marked, with the approval of the Authority, along that footpath or portion of public street,

any person walking on that footpath or portion of public street in a direction away from that in which the traffic control sign is facing must, between that traffic control sign and the next traffic control sign which is facing the direction which the person is walking and on which appears a symbol in or similar to the form of the symbol ilIustrated in Diagram 4 or 5 in that Schedule, keep on that side of the line which corresponds to the side of the first-mentioned symbol depicting a person, unless that person is leaving the footpath or portion of public street by the most direct route.

(3) Where there appears on a traffic control sign which is erected or displayed on or near, or marked on, a portion of public street a symbol in or similar to the form of the symbol illustrated in Diagram 6 in the Schedule to this Regulation, a person must not walk, in a direction away from that in which the sign is facing, along the portion of the public street between that sign and the next traffic control sign that faces the same direction as the first sign and on which appears a symbol in or similar to the form illustrated in Diagram 7 in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3

Diagram 4	Diagram 5	Diagram 6
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Diagram 7

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Regulation is to repeal and replace Regulation 5A of the General Traffic (Pedestrian) Regulations 1937 so as to prescribe certain traffic control signs for the purposes of section 4D of the Traffic Act 1909. The new signs specify the obligations of pedestrians in relation to those portions of public street that are set aside for the exclusive use of riders of bicycles and those that are shared between pedestrians and bicycle-riders.