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Land Transport Act 1998

Land transport secondary legislation

153: Rules concerning road user behaviour

You could also call this:

“Rules about how to use roads and stay safe”

Rules about how you should act on the road can be made. These rules can tell you how drivers, people walking, and others should behave when using roads. They can control all types of traffic, including cars, people walking, and animals. The rules might stop some or all traffic from using certain roads.

The rules can also say how you should use safety equipment in vehicles. This applies to both drivers and passengers. They can also control how animals move on roads.

These rules are a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they are published in a special way to make sure everyone can see them.

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Part 11 Land 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).