40AVehicle standards

40A Vehicle standards

[Section 40A Inserted by No. 22 of 2001, s. 6, Applied:01 Nov 2001]

(1)  The regulations may set vehicle standards.

(2)  Vehicle standards regulations may, without limiting the generality of subsection (1) , prescribe requirements in relation to any or all of the following:

(a) the design, construction, operation, efficiency and performance of vehicles and vehicle components;

(b) the design, construction, operation, efficiency, performance and use of equipment fitted to or carried on vehicles;

(c) the attachment of operational or safety devices;

(d) [Section 40A Subsection (2) amended by No. 71 of 2001, s. 8, Applied:01 Jan 2002] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(e) roadworthiness;

(f) safety, emissions and noise;

(g) the coupling of motor vehicles and trailers;

(h) the identification of vehicles and vehicle components.

(3)  Vehicle standards regulations –

(a) may prescribe, or provide for, conditional or unconditional exemptions from –

(i) vehicle standards requirements generally; and

(ii) a specific requirement related to vehicle standards; and

(b) may regulate the use of vehicles under such exemptions and of any vehicles that vehicle standards, either particularly or generally, are expressed not to apply to; and

(c) may provide for any matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, either specifically or by reference and either wholly or in part, whether as in force at a particular time or as amended and in force from time to time, and with or without modification, any of the following:

(i) national standards under the MVSA;