Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00716:clause:4_80:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00716
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 4 cl 80 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 128644–131367

80  Stopping at a children's crossing
 (1) A driver approaching a children's crossing must drive at a speed at which the driver can, if necessary, stop safely before the crossing.
Offence provision.
Note: Children's crossing is defined in subrule (6).
 (2) A driver approaching or at a children's crossing must stop as near as practicable to, but before reaching, the stop line at the crossing if:
 (a) a hand‑held stop sign is displayed at the crossing; or
 (b) a pedestrian is on or entering the crossing.
Offence provision.
Note 1: Stop line is defined in the dictionary.
Note 2: Rule 322(3) and (4) deal with the meaning of a traffic control device at a place.
 (3) If a driver stops at a children's crossing for a hand‑held stop sign, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian on or entering the crossing and the holder of the sign:
 (a) no longer displays the sign towards the driver; or
 (b) otherwise indicates that the driver may proceed.
Offence provision.
 (4) If a driver stops at a children's crossing for a pedestrian, the driver must not proceed until there is no pedestrian on or entering the crossing.
Offence provision.
 (5) For this rule, if a children's crossing extends across a road with a dividing strip, the part of the children's crossing on each side of the dividing strip is taken to be a separate children's crossing.
Note: Dividing strip is defined in the dictionary.
 (6) A children's crossing is an area of a road:
 (a) at a place with stop lines marked on the road, and:
 (i) children crossing flags; or
 (ii) children's crossing signs and twin yellow lights; and
 (b) indicated by:
 (i) 2 red and white posts erected on each side of the road; or
 (ii) 2 parallel continuous or broken lines on the road surface from one side of the road completely or partly across the road; and
 (c) extending across the road between the posts or lines.
Note: Twin yellow lights is defined in the dictionary.

Children crossing flag  Children's crossing sign

      Hand‑held stop signs

Note 1 for diagrams: There is another permitted version of the children's crossing sign and a number of other permitted versions of the hand‑held stop signs—see the diagrams in Schedule 3.
Note 2 for diagrams: A children's crossing sign may have a different number on the sign—see rule 316(4).
Examples
Example 1                                                                                          Example 2

Driver stopped at stop line for pedestrians on a children's crossing with children crossing flags  Driver stopped at stop line for pedestrians on a children's crossing with children's crossing signs and twin yellow lights

In each of these examples, the driver must stop at the stop line