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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Road Safety Road Rules 2009 (Overtaking Bicycles)
Bill 2014
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Clause Page
1 Purpose 1
2 Commencement 1
3 Amendment of the Road Safety Road Rules 2009 2
4 Overtaking a bicycle 2
5 Amendment of rules 146, 147 and 150 of the Road Safety
Road Rules 2009 3
6 Amendment of Road Safety Road Rules 2009 to have effect
as if made by regulations 4
7 Repeal of amending Act 4
ENDNOTES 5
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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Introduced in the Council by Mr Greg Barber
Road Safety Road Rules 2009
(Overtaking Bicycles) Bill 2014
A Bill for an Act to amend the Road Safety Road Rules 2009 in
relation to the overtaking of bicycles and for other purposes.
The Parliament of Victoria enacts:
1 Purpose
The main purpose of this Act is to amend the
Road Safety Road Rules 2009 to require a driver
of a motor vehicle to maintain a sufficient
5 distance when overtaking a bicycle.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into
operation on a day to be proclaimed.
(2) If this Act does not come into operation before
10 1 January 2015, it comes into operation on that
day.
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3 Amendment of the Road Safety Road Rules 2009
The Road Safety Road Rules 2009 1 are amended
as follows--
(a) in the heading to rule 139, after "Exceptions
5 for" insert "overtaking bicycles or";
(b) in rule 139--
(i) in subrule (1), after "centre of the road
to" insert "overtake a bicycle or";
(ii) in subrule (1)(b) after "centre of the
10 road to" insert "overtake a bicycle or";
(iii) in subrule (2), after "dividing line to"
insert "overtake a bicycle or";
(iv) in subrule (2)(b), after "dividing line to"
insert "overtake the bicycle or";
15 (v) in subrule (4), after "painted island, to"
insert "overtake a bicycle or";
(vi) in subrule (4)(b), after "painted island
to" insert "overtake the bicycle or".
4 Overtaking a bicycle
20 At the end of rule 144 of the Road Safety Road
Rules 2009 insert--
"(2) For the purposes of this rule, sufficient
distance--
(a) in relation to a driver of a motor vehicle
25 overtaking a person who is riding a
bicycle (whether or not the bicycle rider
is in a bicycle lane) means--
(i) if the speed-limit applying for the
length of road where the driver is
30 driving at the time of overtaking is
not more than 60 km per hour--a
distance of not less than one metre
from the bicycle;
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(ii) if the speed-limit applying for the
length of road where the driver is
driving at the time of overtaking is
more than 60 km per hour--a
5 distance of not less than
15 metres from the bicycle.
(b) in relation to a rider of a bicycle
overtaking another bicycle means a
distance that is a safe distance in the
10 circumstances.
(3) For the purposes of this rule, sufficient
distance is measured by the lateral distance
from the furthest right hand side of the
bicycle being overtaken to the left hand side
15 of any part of the overtaking motor vehicle,
including mirrors or other projections.
Note
Bicycle lane is defined in the dictionary.".
5 Amendment of rules 146, 147 and 150 of the Road
20 Safety Road Rules 2009
(1) In rule 146(1) of the Road Safety Road Rules
2009, for paragraph (d) substitute--
"(d) overtaking a bicycle or avoiding an
obstruction; or".
25 (2) In rule 147 of the Road Safety Road Rules 2009,
for paragraph (a), substitute--
"(a) the driver is overtaking a bicycle or avoiding
an obstruction; or".
(3) In rule 150(1A) of the Road Safety Road Rules
30 2009, for paragraph (d) substitute--
"(d) overtaking a bicycle or avoiding an
obstruction.".
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6 Amendment of Road Safety Road Rules 2009 to
have effect as if made by regulations
An amendment of the Road Safety Road Rules
2009 by this Act has the same effect as if the
5 amendment had been made by Rules made under
section 95D of the Road Safety Act 1986.
7 Repeal of amending Act
This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of its
commencement.
10 Note
The repeal of this Act does not affect the continuing operation of
the amendments made by it (see section 15(1) of the
Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984).
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Endnotes
ENDNOTES
1
S. 3: S.R. No. 94/2009 as amended by S.R. Nos 116/2009, 137/2009,
140/2009, 7/2010, 137/2010, 24/2012, 46/2012, 83/2012, 103/2012,
157/2012, 88/2013 and 134/2013.
By Authority. Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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