Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule) Mobile Crane and Other Amendments 2025
I, ANTHONY CHISHOLM, Assistant Minister for Regional Development, make the following determination.
Dated 23 January 2025
[SIGNED]
Anthony Chisholm
Assistant Minister for Regional Development
1. Name
2. Commencement
3. Authority
4. Schedules
Schedule 1 – Amendments
Schedule 2 – Amendments
Schedule 3 – Amendments
Schedule 4 – Amendments
Schedule 5 – Amendments
Schedule 6 – Amendments
Schedule 7 – Amendments
1.1. This instrument is the Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule) Mobile Crane and Other Amendments 2025.
2.1. This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.
3.1. This instrument is made under section 12 of the Road Vehicle Standards Act 2018.
4.1. Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
“5.1.8.4. Any category NC vehicle which is principally designed and constructed to raise, move, and lower freely suspended loads, by means of a ‘Crane’ that has a boom with a lifting moment greater than or equal to 400 kNm, need not be equipped with a ‘Vehicle Stability Function’.”
“5.1.8.4. Any category NC vehicle which is principally designed and constructed to raise, move, and lower freely suspended loads, by means of a ‘Crane’ that has a boom with a lifting moment greater than or equal to 400 kNm, need not be equipped with a ‘Vehicle Stability Function’.”
“Note 2: A category NC vehicle, which is principally designed and constructed to raise, move, and lower freely suspended loads, by means of a ‘Crane’ that has a boom with a lifting moment greater than or equal to 400 kNm, is not required to comply with ADR 97/00, ADR 99/00, or ADR 99/01 (as specified in these ADRs).”
“(e) is a category NC vehicle, which is principally designed and constructed to raise, move, and lower freely suspended loads, by means of a ‘Crane’ that has a boom with a lifting moment greater than or equal to 400 kNm.”
“(e) is a category NC vehicle, which is principally designed and constructed to raise, move, and lower freely suspended loads, by means of a ‘Crane’ that has a boom with a lifting moment greater than or equal to 400 kNm.”
“(a) Appendix A, as varied by clause 6 (Exemptions, Alternative Procedures, and Supplementary Requirements to Appendix A); or”
“(b) the alternative standard under clause 7.1.”
“For vehicles equipped with a Lane Departure Warning System, the technical requirements of the United Nations Regulation No. 130 – UNIFORM PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE APPROVAL OF MOTOR VEHICLES WITH REGARD TO THE LANE DEPARTURE WARNING SYSTEM (LDWS) incorporating the 01 series of amendments.”
Vehicle Standard (Australian Design Rule 38/05 – Trailer Brake Systems) 2018
[1] Sub-clause 7.1.4., after “clause 16,” and before “ must not exceed” insert “and when rounded to the nearest tenth of a second,”.
[2] Sub-clause 7.1.4., after sub-clause (b) on a new line, add:
“If the figure representing the hundredth is five or more, the response time shall be rounded up to the next higher tenth.”.
[3] Sub-clause 11.5, omit “S is the ‘Stopping Distance’ in metres”, substitute
“S is the ‘Stopping Distance’ in metres”
[4] Sub-clause 17.2.1., omit “L ‘Wheel Base’ (m)”, substitute “L ‘Wheelbase’ (m)”