INFOSHEET 2.09 — Required documentation: Entry certification of vehicles

Revision history — Revision 7

Date	Revision no.	Comment
1 February 2009	Revision 7	This revision links directly to the section of our website that includes the tools you will need if fuel consumption information must be provided for your vehicle. Please note that the Statement of Compliance has been amended to include the requirement for fuel consumption information. The previous infosheet 2.15 has been removed.
8 May 2008	Revision 6	This revision advises importers about the changed rules for importing immigrants' vehicles of Classes MA, MB or MC; or 'special interest vehicles', that do not meet frontal impact or emissions standards.
31 October 2006	Revision 5	The infosheet has been extended to include standards for heavy-vehicle brakes that will be introduced through the Heavy-vehicle Brakes Rule, which comes into force on 1 March 2007. Imported heavy vehicles of Classes MD3, MD4, ME, NB and NC that are first registered in New Zealand after 1 July 2008 will need to meet an approved brake standard. In addition vehicles of Classes NB or NC intended to be used to tow heavy trailers will in most cases need to be fitted with ABS, EBS or LSV. Vehicles of Class TC and TD first registered in New Zealand on or after 1 July 2008 will in most cases need to be fitted with ABS, EBS or LSV.
22 June 2006	Revision 4.1	A typographic error in the dates of the ADR plates has been corrected.
1 June 2006	Revision 4	More examples of documentation have been added including some from Singapore, the USA and Hong Kong.
15 September 2005	Revision 3	The statement of compliance has been updated in accordance with Land Transport Rule: Glazing, Windscreen Wipe and Wash, and Mirrors Amendment 2005 by removal of all requirements for windscreen wipe and wash systems to meet standards. In addition, more examples of certificates and compliance plates have been added, as well as some translations of the sample Japanese certificates. The EC whole-vehicle approval plates (formerly EEC) have also been updated.
May 2005	Revision 2	More examples of Japanese deregistration forms have been added, as well as some sample export certificates. The Statement of Compliance has been extended to cover requirements in Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Lighting 2004.
7 December 2004	Revision 1.1	Further clarification of means of compliance in Section 2.3.
5 March 2004	Revision 1	The list of sample documents has been rearranged and three new sample documents have been added.
10 November 2003	Initial publication

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Land Transport New Zealand
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