Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2012C00357:front:0:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2012C00357
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Character Range: 25597–28554

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.

          2.19. 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 adult person.

          2.21. Adjustment system of the seat

          The complete device by which the seat or its parts can be adjusted to a position suited to the morphology of the seated occupant; this device may, in particular, permit of:

          2.21.1. longitudinal displacement;

          2.21.2. vertical displacement;

          2.21.3. angular displacement.

          2.22. Seat anchorage

          The system by which the seat assembly is secured to the vehicle structure, including the affected parts of the vehicle structure.

          2.23. Seat type

          A category of seats which do not differ in such essential respects as:

          2.23.1. the shape, dimensions and materials of the seat structure;

          2.23.2. the types and dimensions of the seat lock adjustment and locking systems;

          2.23.3. the type and dimensions of the belt anchorage on the seat, of the seat anchorage and of the affected parts of the vehicle structure.

          2.24. Displacement system of the seat

          A device enabling the seat or one of its parts to be displaced angularly or longitudinally, without a fixed intermediate position (to facilitate access by