Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00773:clause:1_14:p29
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C00773
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 14 (pt 29/51)
Character Range: 85616–88266

one of the following bodies before these Regulations commenced:
 (a) the Council of the Standards Association of Australia;
 (b) the British Standards Institution;
 (c) the American Society of Automotive Engineers;
 (d) the American National Standards Institute;
 (e) the Japanese Standards Association;
 (f) the German Deutsches Institut für Normung;
 (g) the International Organisation for Standardisation.
 (2) A brake tube or hose fitted to a vehicle must:
 (a) be manufactured from a material appropriate to its intended use in the vehicle; and
 (b) be of adequate length to allow for the full range of steering and suspension movement of the vehicle to which it is attached; and
 (c) be fitted so as to prevent it being damaged by:
 (i) a source of heat from the normal operation of the vehicle; or
 (ii) any movement of the parts to which it is attached during the normal operation of the vehicle.

6.2  Provision for wear
  The braking system of a vehicle must provide for adjustment to take account of normal wear.

6.3  Supply of air or vacuum to brakes
 (1) If air brakes are fitted to a vehicle:
 (a) the compressor that supplies the air to the brakes must be capable of building up air pressure to at least 80% of the governor cut‑out pressure in not more than 5 minutes from a time when the compressed air reserve is fully depleted; and
 (b) the air storage tanks must have sufficient capacity to enable 5 applications of the service brakes before the air pressure drops below half the governor cut‑out pressure; and
 (c) there must be an automatic or manual condensate drain valve at the lowest point of each air brake reservoir in the system; and
 (d) any spring brake fitted to the vehicle must not operate before the warning referred to in paragraph 6.7(3)(b) or 6.10(3)(a) has been given.
 (2) If vacuum brakes are fitted to a vehicle, the vacuum supply must be capable of building up vacuum:
 (a) within 30 seconds to the level at which the warning signal referred to in paragraph 6.7(3)(b) or 6.10(3)(a) no longer operates; and
 (b) within 60 seconds to the normal working level;
from a time when the vacuum reserve is fully depleted.

6.4  Performance of braking systems
 (1) One sustained application of the brake must be able to produce the performance specified in subclause (2), (3) or (4):
 (a) when the motor vehicle or combination of vehicles is on a dry, smooth, level road surface, free from loose material; and
 (b) without part of the vehicle or combination of vehicles moving outside a straight path:
 (i) 3.7 metres wide; and
 (ii) centred on the longitudinal axis of the vehicle or combination before the brake was