Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00053:front:0:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00053
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to limit the rotation of the restraint during a frontal impact.

              c)                  For ISOFIX, universal and semi-universal, child restraint systems the vehicle seat itself does not constitute an anti-rotation device.

2.25.                           "ISOFIX top tether anchorage" means a feature, such as a bar, located in a defined zone, designed to accept an ISOFIX top tether strap connector and transfer its restraint force to the vehicle structure.

2.26.                           "ISOFIX top tether connector" means a device intended to be attached to an ISOFIX top tether anchorage.

2.27.                           "ISOFIX top tether hook" means an ISOFIX top tether connector typically used to attach an ISOFIX top tether strap to an ISOFIX top tether anchorage as defined in figure 3 of annex 9 of this Regulation.

2.28.                           "ISOFIX top tether strap" means a webbing strap (or equivalent) which extends from  the  top  of  an  ISOFIX  child  restraint  system  to  the  ISOFIX  top  tetheranchorage, and which is equipped with an adjustment device, a tension-relieving device, and an ISOFIX top tether connector.

2.29.                           "A guidance device" is intended to help the person installing the ISOFIX child restraint system by physically guiding the ISOFIX attachments on the ISOFIX child restraint into correct alignment with the ISOFIX low anchorages to facilitate engagement.

2.30 "ISOFIX marking fixture" means something that informs someone whishing to install an ISOFIX child restraint system of the ISOFIX positions in the vehicle and the position of each ISOFIX corresponding ISOFIX anchorages systems.

2.31.  "A child restraint fixture" means a fixture according to one out of the seven ISOFIX size classes defined in paragraph 4. of annex 17 – appendix 2 of Regulation No. 16 and particularly whose dimensions are given from figure 1 to figure 6 in the previous mentioned paragraph 4. Those child restraint fixtures (CRF) are used in Regulation No. 16, to check what are the ISOFIX child restraint systems size classes which can be accommodated on the vehicle ISOFIX positions. Also one of the CRF, the so-called ISO/F2 (B) which is described in figure 2 of the previous mentioned paragraph 4., is used in this Regulation to check the location and the possibility of access to any ISOFIX anchorages system.

         3.                                     APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL

3.1.                               The application for approval of a vehicle type with regard to the belt anchorages, the ISOFIX anchorages systems and the ISOFIX top tether anchorages if any shall be submitted by the vehicle manufacturer or by his duly accredited representative.

3.2.                               It shall be accompanied by the undermentioned documents in triplicate and by the following particulars:

3.2.1.                         drawings of the general vehicle structure on an appropriate scale, showing the positions of the belt anchorages, of the effective belt anchorages (where appropriate), of the ISOFIX anchorages systems and of ISOFIX