Land Transport Act 1998

Land transport secondary legislation

153: Rules concerning road user behaviour

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You must follow rules about how to behave on roads. These rules can include standards for how drivers, pedestrians, and other road users should act. They can also regulate different types of traffic on roads. You have to follow rules about using safety equipment in vehicles. These rules apply to drivers and passengers. There are also rules about moving animals on roads. These rules are part of the secondary legislation, which you can read more about in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 11Land transport secondary legislation

153Rules concerning road user behaviour

  1. Without limiting the general power to make rules under section 152, ordinary rules may—

  2. set out standards and requirements concerning road user behaviour, including standards and requirements concerning the conduct of drivers, pedestrians, and other persons using roads:
    1. regulate traffic of all classes (including vehicular, pedestrian, and animal traffic), and prohibit traffic or a class of traffic, either absolutely or conditionally, on a specified road or specified class of road:
      1. set out standards and requirements concerning the use of vehicle safety equipment by drivers, and passengers in or on vehicles:
        1. regulate the movement of animals on roads.
          1. Ordinary rules under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

          Notes
          • Section 153(2): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).