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AUSTRALIAN VEHICLE STANDARDS RULES - REG 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.

    (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.



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