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National Transport Commission (Model Amendments Regulations: Australian Road Rules — Package No. 6) Regulations 20081
Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No.276
I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the National Transport Commission Act 2003.
Dated 12 December 2008

  QUENTIN BRYCE
  Governor‑General
  By Her Excellency's Command

  ANTHONY ALBANESE
  Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the National Transport Commission (Model Amendments Regulations: Australian Road Rules — Package No. 6) Regulations 2008.

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Model legislation — Australian Road Rules

  For section 7 of the National Transport Commission Act 2003 (the NTC Act), Schedule 1 sets out changes to model legislation, in the form of model amending Regulations, about the rules to be followed by all road users.

Note   The amendments set out in Schedule 1 were approved by the Australian Transport Council on 11 May 2007.

4 Amendment of National Transport Commission (Road Transport Legislation — Australian Road Rules) Regulations 2006

  Schedule 1 amends the text set out in Schedule 1 to the National Transport Commission (Road Transport Legislation — Australian Road Rules) Regulations 2006 as if a reference in Schedule 1 to a provision of the Australian Road Rules were a reference to the corresponding provision in that text.
Schedule 1 Model Amendments to the Australian Road Rules (6th package)
(regulation 3)

The following provisions are intended to provide the basis for nationally consistent transport laws on the topics with which they deal. They do not, of themselves, have any legal effect.

[1] After subrule 27 (1)

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 (1A) Subrule (1) also applies to a rider of a bicycle who approaches and enters an intersection from a bicycle storage area.

Note   Bicycle storage area is defined in the dictionary.

 (1B) Despite subrule (1), if there is space in a bicycle storage area for 2 riders of bicycles to be next to each other, the rider on the right may approach and enter the intersection as near as practicable to the right side of the other rider, but only if that other rider approaches and enters the intersection in accordance with this rule.

[2] After subrule 28 (2), including the notes and example

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 (2A) If there is a bicycle storage area before an intersection that extends across one or more marked lanes of a multi‑lane road, a rider of a bicycle turning left must approach and enter the intersection from within the part of the bicycle storage area that is directly in front of the left marked lane or of a bicycle lane that is