New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 8

8 Meaning of road and road-related area

(1) For the purposes of this Law, a road is an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed for, or has as 1 of its uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles.

Examples of areas that are roads--: bridges, cattle grids, culverts, ferries, fords, railway crossings, tunnels or viaducts

(2) For the purposes of this Law, a
"road-related area" is--

(a) an area that divides a road; or

(b) a footpath, shared path or nature strip adjacent to a road; or

(c) a shoulder of a road; or

(d) a bicycle path or another area that is not a road and that is open to the public and designated for use by cyclists or animals; or

(e) an area that is not a road and that is open to, or used by, the public for driving, riding or parking motor vehicles.

(3) Also, an area is a
"road" or
"road-related area" for the purposes of this Law or a particular provision of this Law as applied in a participating jurisdiction, if the area is declared by a law of that jurisdiction to be a road or road-related area for the purposes of this Law or the particular provision.

(4) In this section--

"bicycle path" means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by riders of bicycles.

"footpath" means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by pedestrians.

"shared path" means an area open to the public that is designated for, or has as 1 of its main uses, use by both the riders of bicycles and pedestrians.

"shoulder" , of a road--

(a) includes any part of the road that is not designed to be used by motor vehicles in travelling along the road; and

(b) includes--

(i) for a kerbed road-any part of the kerb; and

(ii) for a sealed road-any unsealed part of the road, and any sealed part of the road outside an edge line on the road; but

(c) does not include a bicycle path, footpath or shared path.