Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00026:front:0:p10
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any other part of the vehicle to which the safety-belt assemblies are to be secured.
              2.16. Vehicle type as regards safety-belts and restraint systems
               Category of power-driven vehicles which do not differ in such essential respects as the dimensions, lines and materials of components of the vehicle structure or seat structure or any other part of the vehicle to which the safety-belts and the restraint systems are attached.
              2.17. Restraint system
               A system for a specific vehicle type or a type defined by the vehicle manufacturer and agreed by the Technical Service consisting of a seat and a belt fixed to the vehicle by appropriate means and consisting additionally of all elements which are provided to diminish the risk of injury to the wearer, in the event of an abrupt vehicle deceleration, by limiting the mobility of the wearer's body.
              2.18. Seat
               A structure which may or may not be integral with the vehicle structure complete with trim, intended to seat one adult person. The term covers both an individual seat or part of a bench seat intended to seat one person.
              2.18.1. "A front passenger seat" means any seat where the "foremost H-point" of the seat in question is in or in front of the vertical transverse plane through the driver's R-point.
              2.18.2. "Forward-facing seat" means a seat which can be used while the vehicle is in motion and which faces towards the front of the vehicle in such a manner that the vertical plane of symmetry of the seat forms an angle of less than +10° or
              -10° with the vertical plane of symmetry of the vehicle.
              2.18.3. "Rearward-facing seat" means a seat which can be used while the vehicle is in motion and which faces towards the rear of the vehicle in such a manner that the vertical plane of symmetry of the seat forms an angle of less than +10° or
              -10° with the vertical plane of symmetry of the vehicle.
              2.18.4. "Side-facing seat" means a seat which can be used while the vehicle is in motion and which faces towards the side of the vehicle in such a manner that the vertical plane of symmetry of the seat forms an angle of 90° (±10°) with the vertical plane of symmetry of the vehicle.
              2.19. Group of seats
               Either a bench-type seat or seats which are separate but side by side (i.e. fixed so that front seat anchorages of one of these seats are in line with the front of the rear anchorages of the other or between the anchorages of the other seat) and accommodate one or more seated adult persons.
              2.20. Bench seat
               A structure complete with trim, intended to seat more than one