South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations12—Non-application of Vehicle Standards to ADR-compliant matters
(1) A requirement of
Parts 5 to 13 of the Vehicle Standards does not apply to a vehicle if the
requirement is inconsistent with a requirement of a second or third edition
ADR that the vehicle complies with (regardless of whether or not the vehicle
is required to comply with the ADR requirement).
(2) Subrule (1) does
not apply if the vehicle is not of the same class or type as the vehicles to
which the ADR requirement applies.
Example—
As the second and third edition ADRs do not apply to a truck built in 1968,
the truck must comply with rule 129 (motor vehicle braking system
requirements). If the owner of such a truck modified the brakes so that they
did comply with the second edition ADRs, any requirement in rule 129 in
relation to the truck's brakes that was inconsistent with the second edition
ADRs would no longer apply to the truck.
However, if the modified brakes only comply with a rule of the second edition
ADRs that only applies to passenger cars, then rule 129 does apply, as subrule
(1) of rule 12 would not apply as a result of subrule (2), because a truck is
not a passenger car.