Exemption from right-hand drive requirement
28 Exemption from right-hand drive requirement
(1) The requirement under rule 27(1) that a motor vehicle must have a right-hand drive does not apply to the following types of motor vehicles:
a personally imported vehicle as defined in rule 23(1);
(b) a vehicle imported under an approval to import given under regulation 9F or 17 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Regulations 1989 (Cth) before their repeal;
(c) a vehicle imported under an approval to import given under regulation 11 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Regulations 1989 (Cth) before its repeal, on the basis that the vehicle satisfied the eligibility criterion set out in section 36 of the RVS Rules;
(d) a vehicle imported under an approval to import given under section 19 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 (Cth) and supplied to market under section 14A or 16(2) of that Act, on the basis that the vehicle satisfied the rarity criterion set out in section 135 of the RVS Rules;
(e) a vehicle that is entered on the RAV because it satisfied the requirements of the concessional RAV entry approval pathway mentioned in section 15(2)(b) of the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018 (Cth) by satisfying:
(i) the eligibility criterion set out in section 36 of the RVS Rules; or
(ii) the eligibility criterion set out in section 37 of the RVS Rules because it is covered by an entry on the SEVs register on the basis that it satisfied the rarity criterion set out in section 135 of the RVS Rules.
In this regulation:
RVS Rules means the Road Vehicle Standards Rules 2019 (Cth).
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