Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations In this
Part —
adopted standard means a standard, except an ADR,
that is applied, adopted or incorporated under this Part and, unless the
contrary intention appears, a reference to an adopted standard in a regulation
or subregulation in this Part is a reference to the standard as in force on
1 November 2002;
air brake means an air‑operated or
air‑assisted brake;
Australian Design Rule ( ADR ) means —
(a) a
third edition ADR; or
(b) a
second edition ADR;
braking system , of a vehicle, means all the
brakes of the vehicle and all the components of the mechanisms by which they
are operated;
British Standard means a standard approved for
publication on behalf of the British Standards Institution, being an
institution established under royal charter in the United Kingdom;
emergency brake means a brake designed to be used
if a service brake fails;
emergency vehicle means any of these —
(a) a
police vehicle ordinarily used by police officers in the course of carrying
out their duties;
(b) a
vehicle operated by —
(i)
a fire brigade under the Fire Brigades Act 1942 ; or
(ii)
a bush fire brigade under the Bush Fires Act 1954 ;
or
(iii)
the department of the Public Service principally
assisting in the administration of the Fire and Emergency Services
Act 1998 ,
and ordinarily used by
members of the brigade or members of staff of that department in the course of
carrying out their duties;
(c) an
ambulance;
(d) an
emergency vehicle within the meaning of a corresponding law;
(e) a
vehicle in respect of which a declaration under regulation 227(a) is in
force;
rear fog light means a light used on a vehicle to
make it more easily visible from the rear in dense fog;
road tank vehicle has the same meaning as in the
ADG Code as defined in Dangerous Goods Safety (Road and Rail Transport of
Non‑explosives) Regulations 2007 regulation 4;
school bus means a motor vehicle that —
(a) is
equipped to carry more than 8 adult persons; and
(b) is,
at the material time, being used to pick up, transport and set down school
children; and
(c) is
solely or principally used for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (b);
second edition ADR means an Australian Design Rule
incorporated in the document described as the Australian Design Rules for
Motor Vehicle Safety, Second Edition originally published by the then
Commonwealth Department of Transport;
third edition ADR means —
(a) a
national standard under the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989
(Commonwealth) as in force immediately before the repeal of that Act; or
(b) a
national road vehicle standard, as amended from time to time, under the
Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 (Commonwealth) section 12;
transport enforcement vehicle means a vehicle in
respect of which a declaration under regulation 227(b) is in force;
vacuum brakes means vacuum‑operated or
vacuum‑assisted brakes.
[Regulation 226 amended: Gazette 20 Sep
2016 p. 3982; SL 2021/37 r. 8; SL 2021/81 r. 8;
SL 2022/149 r. 11.]