Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00383:reg:5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00383
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5
Character Range: 2863–4231

5  Simplified outline of this Part

      Division 6 of Part 4 of the Rules provides for the entry of road vehicles on the SEVs Register. A person may apply for a make and model, or one or more variants of a model, of a road vehicle to be entered on the Register.
      Subsection 128(1) of the Rules defines 'variant'. It provides that road vehicles of a particular kind constitute a variant of a model of a road vehicle if their design characteristics are significantly different from those of other vehicles of that model of road vehicle. Without limiting that definition, subsections 128(3) and (5) specify particular kinds of differences in design characteristics that are significant for that purpose.
      This Part sets out further differences in the design characteristics of road vehicles that will be significant for the purposes of subsection 128(1) of the Rules. Neither section 128 of the Rules nor this instrument provide an exhaustive list of the differences that are significant for that purpose.
      This Part also clarifies when a combination of individual differences that are not, themselves, significant, can nonetheless render the design characteristics of road vehicles of a particular kind significantly different from those of other vehicles of the same model for the purposes of subsection 128(1) of the Rules when considered together.