Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations — 2
7-180, s. 1] SAE means the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. (SAE International); ( SAE ) SAE Compatibility Fluid [Repealed, SOR/2007-180, s. 1] school bus means a bus designed or equipped primarily to carry students to and from school or to and from school-related events; ( autobus scolaire ) scuffing [Repealed, SOR/2007-180, s. 1] sealed beam headlamp [Repealed, SOR/2018-43, s. 1] seat anchorage means any component that transfers a vehicle seat load to the vehicle structure; ( ancrage du siège ) seat back retainer [Repealed, SOR/2007-180, s. 1] seat belt anchorage means any component of a vehicle, other than the webbing or straps, involved in transferring seat belt loads to the vehicle structure, including the attachment hardware, seat frames, seat pedestals, the vehicle structure and any part of the vehicle whose failure causes separation of the belt from the vehicle structure; ( ancrage de ceinture de sécurité ) seat belt assembly means any strap, webbing or similar device designed to secure a person in a vehicle in order to mitigate the results of any accident, and includes all necessary buckles and other fasteners and all attachment hardware but does not include any strap, webbing or similar device that is part of a built-in restraint system; ( ceinture de sécurité ) seating reference point means the unique Design H-Point, as defined in section 3.11.1 of SAE Recommended Practice J1100, Motor Vehicle Dimensions (February 2001), that (a) establishes the rearmost normal design driving or riding position of each designated seating position, taking into account all modes of adjustment — horizontal, vertical and tilt — in a vehicle, (b) has X, Y and Z coordinates, as defined in section 3.3 of SAE Recommended Practice J1100, Motor Vehicle Dimensions (February 2001), established relative to the designed vehicle structure, (c) simulates the position of the pivot centre of the human torso and thigh, and (d) is the reference point employed to position the H-Point template with the 95th percentile leg, as described in section 4.1 of SAE Standard J826, Devices for Use in Defining and Measuring Vehicle Seating Accommodation (July 1995), or, if that template cannot be positioned, the reference point when the seat is in its rearmost adjustment position; ( point de référence de position assise ) seating surface width means the maximum width of a seating surface when it is measured in a zone extending from a transverse vertical plane that is 150 mm behind the front leading surface of that seating surface to a transverse vertical plane that is 250 mm behind that front leading surface, measured horizontally and longitudinally; ( largeur de la surface de siège ) seat orientation reference line (SORL) [Repealed, SOR/2013-117, s. 1] semi-trailer means a trailer constructed in such a manner that a substantial part of its weight rests upon or is carried by another vehicle by means of a fifth-wheel or similar coupling, but does not include a pole trailer, or any trailer designed to be drawn behind a passenger car or multi-purpose passenger vehicle; ( semi-remorque ) series means the name that a manufacturer applies to a subdivision of a line denoting the price, size or weight identification and that is utilized by the manufacturer for marketing purposes; ( série ) service brake means the primary mechanism designed to stop a vehicle; ( frein de service ) shoulder reference point means the point 563 mm above the H-point along the torso line; ( point de référence de l’épaule ) sloughing [Repealed, SOR/2007-180, s. 1] snowmobile means a vehicle — excluding a competition vehicle but including a snowmobile conversion vehicle — that has a mass of not more than 450 kg, is designed primarily for travel on snow, has one or more steering skis and is driven by means of an endless belt or belts in contact with the ground; ( motoneige ) snowmobile conversion vehicle means a vehicle designed to be capable of conversion to a snowmobile by the repositioning o