Western Australian Repealed Regulations Western Australian Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) A motor vehicle
first registered on or after 1 January 1942 shall be equipped with a
windscreen of safety glass.
(2) Subject to the
provisions of subregulation (3) a motor vehicle first registered on or
after 1 February 1955 shall be equipped with safety glass of a type approved
by the Director General, wherever glass is used in windows, windscreens or
interior partitions; and a replacement of a window, windscreen or interior
partition in any motor vehicle shall be of safety glass.
(3) Any transparent
material other than glass used in windows or interior partitions of a motor
vehicle shall be of a kind that does not shatter.
(4) Any film applied
to the surface of the windscreen or a window of a motor vehicle shall, at
every point on the film, have a reflectance in the visible light range of not
more than 20% and, where applied to the surface of a window other than the
windscreen, a light transmission in the visible light range of not less than
35%, when measured at an angle of incidence not more than 20 degrees from
perpendicular to the surface but there shall not be any film on the surface of
the windscreen below the upper 10% of the surface of the windscreen.
[(4a) Omitted under
the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).]
(5) All motor vehicles
manufactured on or after 1 July 1971 shall whenever glass is used in
windscreens be equipped with safety glass complying with Design Rule
No. 8.
(6) The provisions of
this regulation other than subregulations (4) and (4a) 8 do not
apply to motor cycles.
[Regulation 1002 amended in Gazette
13 Feb 1981 p. 613; 2 Feb 1982 p. 407;
31 Jan 1997 p. 685-6.]