Wednesday, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:41
I think that if they are greater then 55W they must be used like your high beam. ie they must turn off when you dip your lights. (all on the same "dipping device")
Headlight might be dealt with under each states regulation rather then by the ADR. The regulations are available for free on the web but the ADR costs $75 I think.
Here's the QLD Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Vehicle Standards and Safety) Regulation 1999
part 7 Lights and reflectors
65 Changing headlights from high-beam to low-beam
position
(1) A motor vehicle built after 1934 that can travel at over
60 km/h must be fitted with—
(a) a dipping device enabling the driver in the normal
driving position—
(i) to change the headlights from the high-beam
position to the low-beam position; or
(ii) simultaneously to switch off a high-beam headlight
and switch on a low-beam headlight; and
(b) for a motor vehicle built after June 1953, a device to
indicate to the driver that the headlights are in the
high-beam position.
(2) A headlight fitted to a motor vehicle that is not fitted with a
dipping device mentioned in subsection (1)(a) must operate in
the low-beam position.
(3) When a headlight fitted to a motor vehicle is switched to the
low-beam position, any other headlight on the vehicle must
operate only in the low-beam position or be off.
Hope that helps a little.
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