77Headlights to be fitted to vehicles

77 Headlights to be fitted to vehicles (1) A motor vehicle must be fitted with: (a) 1 low-beam headlight if it is a moped, motor bike, or motor trike with 1 front wheel; or (b) a pair of low-beam headlights if it has 4 or more wheels or is a motor trike, except a moped, with 2 front wheels. (2) If a motor vehicle built after 1934 can travel at over 60 kilometres an hour: (a) each low-beam headlight mentioned in subrule (1) must be able to work in the high-beam position; or (b) the vehicle must be fitted with: (i) 1 headlight that can work in the high-beam position if the vehicle is required to have 1 low-beam headlight; or

Motor Vehicles (Standards) Regulations 2003 – Australian Vehicle Standards Rules 37 (ii) a pair of headlights that can work in the high-beam position. (3) A motor bike may be equipped with a headlight modulation system that: (a) varies the brightness of its high-beam headlight or low-beam headlight, but not both, at a rate of at least 200 and at most 280 flashes a minute; and (b) is designed to operate only in the daylight. (4) Additional headlights may be fitted to a motor bike or motor trike, or a motor vehicle with 4 or more wheels that was built before 1970. (5) Additional pairs of headlights may be fitted to a motor vehicle with 4 or more wheels that was built after 1969.