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Motor Vehicle Standards Regulations 1989
20Nonstandard road vehicles—prescribed circumstance relating to design
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#### 20 Nonstandard road vehicles—prescribed circumstance relating to design
(1) Where:
(a) a road vehicle does not comply with the national standards applicable to it; and
(b) the road vehicle would, if it did comply with those standards, be unable to operate as a road vehicle in the manner or for the purpose in respect of which it was designed; and
(c) the Minister approves, in writing, of the vehicle being supplied to the market, used by a corporation in transport in Australia or imported, as the case may be;
that is a prescribed circumstance for the purpose of paragraph 14A(1)(a), 15(2)(a) or 20(1)(b) of the Act, as the case requires.
(2) An approval under paragraph (1)(b) may be subject to written conditions determined by the Minister, being conditions relating to safety or emissions or to the placing of an identification plate on the vehicle.