Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00053:front:0:p31
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00053
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type shall be notified to the administrative department which approved the vehicle type. The department may then either:

8.1.1.                         consider that the modifications made are unlikely to have an appreciable adverse effect and that in any case the vehicle still complies with the requirements; or

8.1.2.                         require a further test report from the technical service responsible for conducting the tests.

8.2.                               Confirmation or refusal of approval, specifying the alterations, shall be communicated by the procedure specified in paragraph 4.3. above to the Parties to the Agreement which apply this Regulation.

8.3.                               The competent authority issuing the extension of approval shall assign a series number for such an extension and inform  thereof  the  other  Parties  to  the 1958 Agreement applying  this Regulation by means  of a  communication form conforming to the model in annex 1 to this Regulation.

9.                                     CONFORMITY OF PRODUCTION

The conformity of production procedures shall comply with those set out in the Agreement, appendix 2 (E/ECE/324-E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2), with the following requirements:

9.1.                               Every vehicle bearing an approval mark as prescribed under this Regulation shall conform to the vehicle type approved with regard to details affecting the characteristics of the safety-belt anchorages and the ISOFIX anchorages system and ISOFIX top tether anchorage.

9.2.                               In order to verify conformity as prescribed in paragraph 9.1. above, a sufficient number of serially-produced vehicles bearing the approval mark required by this Regulation shall be subjected to random checks.

9.3.                               As a general rule the checks as aforesaid shall be confined to the taking of measurements. However, if necessary, the vehicles shall be subjected to some of the tests described in paragraph 6. above, selected by the technical service conducting approval tests.

10.                                 PENALTIES FOR NON-CONFORMITY OF PRODUCTION

          10.1.                         The approval granted in respect of a vehicle type pursuant to this Regulation may be withdrawn if the requirement laid down in paragraph 9.1. above is not complied

with or if its safety-belt anchorages or the ISOFIX anchorages system and ISOFIX top tether anchorage failed to pass the checks prescribed in paragraph 9. above.

10.2.                           If a Contracting Party to the Agreement which applies this Regulation withdraws an approval it has previously granted, it shall forthwith so notify the other Contracting Parties applying this Regulation, by means of a communication form conforming to the model in annex 1 to this Regulation.

11.                                 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

The national authorities may require the manufacturers of vehicles registered by them to state clearly in the instructions for operating the vehicle

11.1.                           where the anchorages are; and

11.2.                           for what types of belts the anchorages are intended (see annex 1, item 5).

12.                                 PRODUCTION DEFINITELY DISCONTINUED

If the holder of the approval completely ceases to manufacture a type of safety-belt anchorages