Western Australian Repealed Regulations Western Australian Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) Except as provided
in subregulation (4), a vehicle shall not be equipped with a lamp capable
of displaying intermittent flashes in addition to those lamps required or
permitted under these regulations unless, subject to subregulations (2)
and (3), the vehicle is —
(a) an
emergency vehicle;
(b) a
special purpose vehicle (including a special purpose vehicle used in the
circumstances set out in regulation 103A(3));
(c) a
pilot or escort vehicle;
(d) a
vehicle owned by the King’s Park Board;
(e) a
self-propelled agricultural implement, a vehicle towing an agricultural
implement or a towed agricultural implement where that implement does not
conform with these regulations;
(f) a
vehicle used to drive stock along or across a road, if the flashing lamps
comply with subregulation (6);
(g) a
fire control vehicle (other than that of a fire brigade) which is used to
control or extinguish fires, and that vehicle is used for travelling to or
from a fire or a fire control exercise;
(h) a
motor vehicle that is used solely or principally for the carriage of children
to and from school, equipped to carry more than 8 adult persons (including the
driver) and if that vehicle has a lamp approved for the purpose by the
Director General;
(i)
a vehicle or vehicle combination that exceeds the maximum
height, width, length or mass limitations under these regulations, while that
vehicle, or vehicles, are subject to a permit issued under these regulations;
or
(j) any
other type of vehicle approved by the Director General and used in conformity
with any conditions that may be imposed by the Director General.
(2) A vehicle
that —
(a) is
authorised as an emergency vehicle for the purposes of the Road Traffic Code
1975 6 by the Director General;
(b) is a
special purpose vehicle; or
(c) is
used as a pilot or escort vehicle,
shall not be equipped
with a flashing lamp referred to in subregulation (1) or (4), unless the
vehicle is primarily being used as an emergency vehicle, special purpose
vehicle or pilot or escort vehicle, as the case may be, and the lamp shall be
removed or covered when the vehicle is not primarily in such use.
(3) A person shall
ensure that a vehicle referred to in subregulation (1)(e), (f), (g), (h)
or (i), that is equipped with a flashing lamp because of its use in the
circumstances limited in regulation 1210 of the Road Traffic Code 1975
6 , has the lamp removed within a reasonable time of the completion of
that use.
(4) A special purpose
vehicle used by a governmental authority in connection with its functions may,
with the approval of the Director General, be equipped with a lamp displaying
intermittent flashes in addition to those lamps required or permitted under
these regulations.
(5) The lamp or lamps
displayed by a vehicle described in subregulation (1) or (4) may
display —
(a) in
the case of a police vehicle, a light of a colour or colours approved by the
Director General;
(b) a
red light (or a light of another colour or colours approved by the Director
General) in the case of an emergency vehicle other than a police vehicle; and
(c) an
amber light (or a light of another colour or colours approved by the Director
General) in each other case,
for use in the
circumstances limited by regulation 1210 of the Road Traffic Code 1975
6 , and not otherwise.
(6) Equipment referred
to in subregulations (1) and (4) shall be fitted to a
vehicle —
(a) so
that the flashing lamp is visible from both sides, and the front and back, of
the vehicle from a height of 1.5 metres and at a distance of
200 metres;
(b)
except in the case of a police vehicle, a fire brigade vehicle and an
ambulance, so that the flashing lamp is no lower than 1.5 metres from the
ground; and
(c) so
that when the equipment is switched on it indicates by means of an audible or
visual tell-tale indicator to the driver of the vehicle, when in his normal
driving position, that the equipment is in operation.
(7) A vehicle, fitted
with flashing lamp signalling devices that are of the type referred to in
regulation 904 and that show only amber light to the front of the
vehicle, may also be fitted with equipment that will permit, when the
equipment is switched on, all the lamps of the signalling devices to flash
simultaneously at a rate of not less than 60 or more than 120 times per minute
and at the same time indicate to the driver of the vehicle when in his normal
driving position, that the equipment is in operation by means of a visual and
audible tell-tale indicator.
(8) A fire control
vehicle (other than one owned by a fire brigade) that is used to control or
extinguish fires, when used on a road where the presence of smoke constitutes
a traffic hazard, shall have operating a flashing lamp displaying an all round
amber light, except where —
(a) the
vehicle is a trailer and such a light is attached to the towing vehicle in
such a position as to be visible to vehicles approaching the combined vehicles
from any direction; or
(b) the
vehicle complies with all the applicable lighting requirements of these
regulations.
(9) Nothing in this
regulation applies to the fitting of lamps displaying intermittent flashes to
military vehicles operated by the Defence Forces of the Commonwealth.
(10) In this
regulation —
"emergency vehicle" and "special purpose
vehicle” have the same meaning they have under the Road Traffic
Code 1975 6 .
[Regulation 404 inserted in Gazette
22 Sep 2000 p. 5439-42.]