Draft for public comment

Land Transport Rules are law produced by Land Transport New Zealand for the Minister of Transport. Land Transport NZ drafts Rules in plain language to reach a wide audience. Draft Rules go through an extensive consultation process and are refined in response to consultation.

This is the yellow (public consultation) draft of Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Equipment (Immobilisers) Amendment [2008] (Rule 32017/3). If you wish to comment on this draft Rule, please see the page headed Making a submission. The deadline for submissions is 23 May 2008.

Contents

Section 1     Application

• 1.1     Title
• 1.2     Date when Rule comes into force
• 1.3     Scope of Rule

Section 2     Amendments to Rule requirements

Section 3     Amendments to definitions

Section 1     Application

1.1     Title

This Rule is Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Equipment (Immobilisers) Amendment [2008].

 

1.2     Date when Rule comes into force

This Rule comes into force on [date].

 

1.3     Scope of Rule

The Rule amends Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Equipment 2004.

 

Section 2     Amendments to rule requirements

Section 2 is amended by inserting the following subclause:

• “2.10     Immobilisers
• 2.10(1)     This clause applies to motor vehicles of Classes MA, MB and MC except:
• (a)     motor sport vehicles;
• (b)     scratch-built vehicles;
• (c)     any vehicle first registered outside New Zealand more than eight years before its entry into service in New Zealand.
• 2.10(2)     A vehicle that is entering service in New Zealand must be fitted with an immobiliser.
• 2.10(3)     A vehicle inspector or inspecting organisation must not certify a vehicle for entry into service if they have reason to believe that the immobiliser is not in working order.”

 

Section 3     Amendments to definitions

Part 2 is amended by inserting the following definitions in the appropriate place:

• “Immobiliser means an electronic device that interrupts the power supply to a vehicle's engine if the correct electronic signal is not provided to the device.”
• “Scratch-built vehicle means a motor vehicle that is either:
• (a)     assembled from previously unrelated components and construction materials that have not been predominantly sourced from donors of a single make or model and that, in its completed form, never previously existed as a mass-produced vehicle, although the external appearance may resemble or replicate an existing vehicle; or
• (b)     a modified production vehicle that contains less than the following components from a mass produced vehicle of a single make and model:
• (i)     40% of the chassis rails and 50% of the crossmembers, or alternatively 40% of a spaceframe, or 40% of the floorpan of a unitary constructed body, whichever is appropriate; and
• (ii)     for light vehicles, 40% of the bodywork (based on the surface area of body panels but not including the floorpan, internal bracing, subpanels, bulkheads or firewall).”