Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (VEHICLE STANDARDS) RULES 2002 - REG 77

77 .         Changing headlights from high-beam to low-beam position

        (1)         A motor vehicle built after 1934 that can travel at over 60 km/h 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.

        (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.