Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01742:body:0:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01742
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Character Range: 17308–20583

seconds after the last passenger door has closed.

 1.                               The vehicle must be equipped with an audible warning message to encourage occupant seatbelt use. This must:

            1.    announce (play the message) "please fasten seatbelts while seated", after each time the last passenger door is closed, and must commence before:
                 1.                  the vehicle has been in forward motion for 500 metres; or
                 2.                the vehicle has reached a forward speed of 25 km/h; and

            1.    be transmitted throughout each occupant compartment.

              1.                         Notwithstanding the requirements in clause 5.8.3 above, the vehicle may be fitted with a passenger recognition system to limit the activation of the audible warning message to when passengers board the vehicle. If such a system is fitted, the audible warning message required, need only be provided after each time one or more passenger(s) boards the vehicle (i.e. not necessarily when one or more passenger(s) exit the vehicle, without any passenger boarding the vehicle).

 1.                                           ACCESSORIES ON SEAT

     1.                                     General Accessories

         1.                               Fittings such as ashtrays, hand-grips, switches, folding trays, etc. above a horizontal plane 400 mm above the 'Reference Plane' must be so made that when a horizontal longitudinal force of 375 N, using a sphere of 165 mm diameter and directed 'Forward', is applied:

             1.                         the fitting must not project, in the most unfavourable position, more than 25 mm from the rear surface of the 'Seat'; or

             2.                         the fitting must break off or bend so that no projections or edges are exposed as to be contactable by a sphere of 70 mm diameter.

     2.                                     Armrests

         1.                               Armrests must be tested in the directions shown in Figure 1, using the forces specified below, applied using a semi-cylindrical form of 50 mm radius and a length of 200 mm.

         2.                               Each location must be loaded separately.

         3.                               A vertical force (i) of 1,000 N must be applied to the armrest at locations within 30 mm of each end and at the centre of the armrest, with the loading form horizontal and transversely across the armrest.

         4.                               A horizontal longitudinal force (ii) of 2,000 N must be applied to the rear upper 30 mm of each armrest, with the loading form vertical.

         5.                               A horizontal force (iii) of 1,000 N must be applied to locations within 30 mm of the ends of the armrest, with the loading form vertical.

         6.                               These forces must be applied in both directions to the 'Forward' end of the armrest and towards the 'Seat' at the rear end of the armrest, and outwards from the 'Seat' at the rear end of the armrest if that part of the armrest is exposed in any position of the 'Seat'.

         7.                               After the forces specified have been