Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2007C00220:front:0:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2007C00220
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 28401–31217

the 'Administrator' it is unnecessary or impracticable to provide a wheel guard(s).
15.3.                                Wheel Guards for L-Group Vehicles
15.3.1.                          Wheel guards may consist of either permanent body structure or part structure and other components, including mudflaps, provided the specified protection is retained during vehicle operation.
15.3.2.                          General Requirements

         The wheels of a vehicle and the wheel of a side-car must be fitted with wheel guards of width not less than the 'Section Width' of the tyre. The wheel guards must be so designed as to protect other road users, as far as practicable, against thrown-up stones, mud, ice, snow and water and to reduce for those users the dangers due to contact with the moving wheels.

15.3.3.                          Special Requirements
15.3.3.1.                    Rear 'Axle' and Side-car

         The wheel guard provided for the rear wheel and for the wheel of any side-car must extend not less than from a point vertically above the foremost part of the wheel rearward to a point not higher than the intersection of the arc of the wheel guard with a line through the centre of the wheel at 45 degrees to a horizontal plane through the centre of the wheel when a mass of 45 kg is distributed in the saddle of the vehicle at its 'Unladen Mass'.

15.3.3.2.                    Front 'Axle'

         Where a wheel guard(s) is provided for the front 'Axle', it must extend not less than from a point vertically above the centre of the wheel rearward to a point not higher than the centre of the wheel or to the point where suitable protection is afforded by the frame or other construction of the vehicle when a mass of 45 kg is distributed in the saddle of the vehicle at its 'Unladen Mass'.

15.4.                                Visibility of Wheel Guards (Certain Vehicles)
         Except when 'Rear Marking Plates' are fitted, for every rear wheel guard affixed to a motor vehicle, or trailer which is 2.2 m or more in 'Overall Width' and which has a body of the tray type, that portion of the external surface of such wheel guard which is visible to the rear of such vehicle must be white or silver in colour and clearly visible.
16.                                      BRAKE TUBING AND BRAKE HOSE

         Air or vacuum brake tubing and air and vacuum brake hose, flexible and hydraulic power hose between the 'Brake Power Unit 31/00' or 'Brake Power Unit 35/00' and the master cylinder or its equivalent (and thus not subject to ADR 7/... "Hydraulic Brake Hoses") must conform to BSS, SAE, or other 'Approved' standards specified for air brake tubing or hose or vacuum brake tubing or hose or hydraulic power tubing or hose and be so fitted to the vehicle as to prevent chafing,