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MOTOR VEHICLES (STANDARDS) REGULATIONS - AUSTRALIAN VEHICLE STANDARDS RULES
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MOTOR VEHICLES (STANDARDS) REGULATIONS - AUSTRALIAN VEHICLE STANDARDS RULES
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83 Changing headlights from high-beam to low-beam position (1) A motor vehicle built after 1934 that can travel at over 60 kilometres an hour must be fitted with: (a) a dipping device enabling the driver in the normal driving position: (i) to change the headlights from the high-beam position to the low-beam position; or (ii) simultaneously to switch off a high-beam headlight and switch on a low-beam headlight; and (b) for a vehicle built after June 1953 – a device to indicate to the driver that the headlights are in the high-beam position. (2) A headlight fitted to a vehicle not fitted with a dipping device mentioned in subrule (1)(a) must operate in the low-beam position.
Motor Vehicles (Standards) Regulations 2003 – Australian Vehicle Standards Rules 39 (3) When a headlight fitted to a vehicle is switched to the low-beam position, any other headlight on the vehicle must operate only in the low-beam position or be off.