Vehicle Approval Schemes

Full Volume

A full volume manufacturer is one that holds approval to place identification plates on new vehicles supplied to the Australian market in unlimited numbers.

Compliance tests are done on a representative vehicle or batch of vehicles. The results of these tests are used to demonstrate that all vehicles of that type meet the ADRs. As some of the tests require that a vehicle be crashed, it is only cost effective to obtain approval to fit plates to vehicle models that have sizeable markets.

New Low Volume Vehicles

The Low Volume Scheme for new vehicles allows for the supply to the market of up to 25 or 100 vehicles per year (numbers may vary depending on the vehicle category). The Scheme provides a major concession in that it allows alternative forms of evidence to be submitted against some of the ADRs. In the main this applies to ADRs where destructive or expensive testing is required.

The Low Volume Scheme for new vehicles is limited to vehicle make/models that are on the Register of Specialist and Enthusiast Vehicles (the Register). The eligibility requirements for entry on the Register are set out in Regulation 24 of the Motor Vehicle Standards Regulations 1989, and in the Administrator of Vehicle Standards Circular 0-2-12.

For more information:

http: rvcs.infrastructure.gov.au
SEVS information;
or you may contact Vehicle Safety Standards on 02 6274 7766.

Registered Automotive Workshop Scheme (RAWS)

A RAW is a business that has been approved to import and plate up to 100 used vehicles (per vehicle category), per year. The vehicles imported must be on the Register of Specialist and Enthusiast vehicles (with the exception of unrestricted used motorcycles). The application form attached to this bulletin is not to be used for vehicles imported under the RAW Scheme.

Specialist and Enthusiast Vehicle Scheme (SEVS)

SEVS is a register of vehicle make/models that have been assessed as meeting the criteria in the Regulations for classification as specialist and enthusiast vehicles.

These are make/models that are not available from the mainstream manufacturers and cater for comsumers with specialist and enthusiast interests.

The criteria and application form for SEVS decisions and a list of all the vehicle models already assessed under the scheme are available on the Register of Specialist and Enthusiast Vehicles.