Road rules — Your Keys to Driving in Queensland
Your Keys to Driving in Queensland is a book that contains essential information about the Queensland driver licensing system and road rules. The book is a valuable source of information for learner drivers, their tutors, and people who already have their licence but want to refresh their knowledge.
The guide is available as a complete PDF (portable document format) file and also divided into sections so you can download a portion at a time. The information in this guide is current as at July 2008.
Important notes about road rules
- Changes are being made to the Queensland Road Rules to ensure they align with the Australian Road Rules. The changes to the Queensland Road Rules are effective from 12 October 2009.
- There are specific rules regarding child restraints — the new child restraint rules are effective as of 11 March 2010.
- If you ride a motorcycle, please read the information about the motorcycle changes that commenced 1 July 2009 which includes the learner approved motorcycle scheme, the requirement to display P plates on motorcycles and new pillion passenger restrictions.
- Your Keys to Driving in Queensland (PDF**, 2.84MB)
- Introduction (PDF**, 510KB)
- Queensland licensing (PDF**, 459KB)
- Road rules (Part A) (PDF**, 288KB)
- Road rules (Part B) (PDF**, 306KB)
- Road rules (Part C) (PDF**, 332KB)
- Road rules (Part D) (PDF**, 311KB)
- Road rules (Part E) (PDF**, 275KB)
- Safe road use (PDF**, 377KB)
- Offences and penalties (PDF**, 284KB)
- Your vehicle (PDF**, 224KB)
- Organ donation (PDF**, 151KB)
- Index (PDF**, 140KB)
- Notes (PDF**, 122KB).
The Your Keys to Driving in Queensland publication is also available from most newsagents and Department of Transport and Main Roads customer service centres at a recommended retail price of A$11.50.
It is also available for purchase online.
The information in Your Keys to Driving in Queensland is an interpretation of the rules applying to road use in Queensland. For more detail, visit the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel website and search the Transport Operations (Road Use Management — Road Rules) Regulation 1999, which are the current Queensland Road Rules.
**While this department has taken every possible precaution with the creation of these files, they are downloaded and used at your own risk. Adobe Reader is needed to open and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files and is free to download from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Various tools to enable access to these files for people using a screen reader can be found at http://access.adobe.com. Further information is available from the "Help with downloading, reading and printing PDF".
Last updated 01 October 2009
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