23Partial exception to compliance with ADRs – personally

23 Partial exception to compliance with ADRs – personally imported vehicles personally imported vehicle means a vehicle built after 1968 that: (a) has been imported into Australia by a person in accordance with: (i) an approval to import given under regulation 9D or 13 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Regulations 1989 (Cwlth) before their repeal; or (ii) an approval to import under Schedule 3, item 13 to the Road Vehicle Standards (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2018 (Cwlth); or (b) has been: (i) imported into Australia by a person in accordance with a concessional RAV entry approval granted on the basis that the vehicle satisfied the eligibility criterion set out in section 39 of the Road Vehicle Standards Rules 2019 (Cth); and (ii) entered on the RAV. (2) A personally imported vehicle must be fitted with: (a) seat belts that are as effective as seat belts that meet an Australian Standard or British Standard for seat belts as in force when this rule commenced; and (b) seat belt anchorages that meet the number and location requirements of second or third edition ADR 5; and (c) child restraint anchorages that meet the number, location, accessibility, thread size and form requirements of second edition ADR 34 or third edition ADR 5 or 34; and (d) head restraints that meet the number, location and size requirements of second or third edition ADR 22. (3) However, a personally imported vehicle need only meet the requirements of an ADR mentioned in subrule (2) if the ADR recommends that it should apply, or applies, to a vehicle of the same type.

Motor Vehicles (Standards) Regulations 2003 – Australian Vehicle Standards Rules 11 (4) A personally imported vehicle need not otherwise comply with an ADR applied by rule 19(1) or 20(1).