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Schedule 1—Model legislation for regulation 3
(regulation 3)

Model Amendments Regulations: Australian Road Rules—Package No. 8

Contents

                                          Page
1. Name
2. Purpose
3. Approval
4. Rules being amended by these Regulations
5. Change to what constitutes a shared zone
6. Giving way to pedestrians when turning at intersections
7. Signals when using roundabouts
8. Keeping to the left of the centre of a road or the dividing line
9. Clarification to exceptions to keeping to the left of a dividing line
10. Passing or overtaking a vehicle displaying a do not overtake turning vehicle sign
11. Further exception to requirement for particular vehicles to use marked lane
12. Driver of motor bike to have proper control of the motor bike
13. Television receivers and visual display units in motor vehicles
14. Substitution of rule 300
15. Insertion of rule 353

Model Amendments Regulations: Australian Road Rules—Package No. 8

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.  Name
  These Regulations are the Model Amendments Regulations: Australian Road Rules—Package No. 8.

2.  Purpose
  The purpose of these Regulations is to amend the Australian Road Rules –
 (a) to confine the use of mobile phones in motor vehicles to hands‑free phones and phones that are in mountings fixed to the vehicles; and
 (b) to confine the use of visual display units used as drivers' aids in motor vehicles to units that are in mountings fixed to the vehicles; and
 (c) to address various technical matters in relation to –
 (i) the definition of shared zones; and
 (ii) drivers giving way to pedestrians when turning at intersections; and
 (iii) the giving of turning signals when using roundabouts; and
 (iv) staying to the left of the centre of roads and the crossing of dividing lines; and
 (v) overtaking to the left of vehicles; and
 (vi) particular vehicles leaving marked lanes for the purposes of turning; and
 (vii) carrying animals on motor bikes.

3.  Approval
  These Regulations were approved by the Australian Transport Council on 6 February 2009.

4.  Rules being amended by these Regulations
  These Regulations amend the Australian Road Rules.

5.  Change to what constitutes a shared zone
 (1) In rule 24(1), after "on a road" insert ", or the road,".
 (2) For rule 24(2) substitute –
 "(2) A shared zone is:
 (a) if there is a shared zone sign and an end shared zone sign on a road and there is no intersection on the length of road between the signs—that length of road; or
 (b) if there is a shared zone sign on a road that ends in a