112. Issue by Minister of highway code for guidance of users of roads

The Minister may prepare a code (called in this section the highway code) comprising directions that appear to the Minister to be proper for the guidance of persons using roads and may revise the code by revoking, varying, amending or adding to the provisions thereof in any manner that he or she thinks fit.

The highway code and any revision thereof must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

Subject to subsections (1) and (2), the Minister may cause the code and every revised edition of the code to be printed and issued to the public either without charge or at the price he or she thinks fit.

The Minister may take any other steps that he or she thinks fit for securing that the provisions of the code are brought to the notice of the public.

A failure on the part of any person to observe any provision of the highway code shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind, but the failure may, in any proceedings whether civil or criminal and including proceedings for an offence under this Act, be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or to negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings.