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AUSTRALIAN VEHICLE STANDARDS RULES - REG 77 Headlights to be fitted to vehicles

AUSTRALIAN VEHICLE STANDARDS RULES - REG 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

            (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.