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1989 Ed.] Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations

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[Subsidiary]

30. Establishment of zebra crossings

(1) The Commissioner may establish zebra crossings on any road and shall cause every zebra crossing so established to be delineated in accordance with Schedule 4.

(2) Any variation in a dimension specified in Schedule 4 shall be treated as permitted by these regulations if the variation-

(a) in the case of a dimension of 300 mm or more, does not exceed 20% of that dimension; or

(b) in the case of a dimension of less than 300 mm, where the actual dimension exceeds the dimension so specified, does not exceed 30% of the dimension so specified, and where the actual dimension is less than the dimension so specified, does not exceed 10% of the dimension so specified.

31. Precedence for pedestrians

Every pedestrian on a zebra crossing shall have precedence while on it over any vehicle and, if a pedestrian is on the zebra crossing before the vehicle or any part of it has come on to or over the zebra crossing, the driver of the vehicle shall accord precedence to such pedestrian:

Provided that in the case of a zebra crossing on which there is a pedestrian refuge or central reservation the parts of the zebra crossing which are situated on each side of the pedestrian refuge or central reservation shall each be treated as a separate zebra crossing.

32. Prohibition against overtaking at zebra crossings

(1) The driver of a vehicle (hereinafter in this regulation referred to as the "approaching vehicle") while it or any part of it is in a zebra controlled area and is proceeding towards the zebra crossing shall not cause the approaching vehicle, or any part of it-

(a) to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving vehicle, being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area; or

(b) to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle in the same part of the zebra controlled area as the approaching vehicle, which stationary vehicle is stopped wholly or partly within that area for the purpose of complying with regulation 31, unless he so passes to conform with a direction given by a police officer in uniform or traffic warden in uniform.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation-

(a) the reference to another moving vehicle is, in a case where only one other vehicle is proceeding in the same direction in a zebra controlled area, a reference to that vehicle.