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MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY ACT

Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations

Standard 122



[Repealed by: SOR/2005-42]


Motorcycle Brake Systems (Standard 122)

General

122. (1) Every motorcycle shall conform to Technical Standards Document No. 122, Motorcycle Brake Systems, as amended from time to time (hereafter referred to as TSD 122).

 

Technical Standards Document No. 122

(1.1) For the purposes of this section, the words "three-wheeled motorcycle" used in TSD 122 mean "motor tricycle".

(2) The statement set out in section S5.1.2.2 of TSD 122 may be replaced by another statement to the same effect.

(3) Despite section S5.1.3.1(d) of TSD 122, the indicator lamp shall display the identification symbol set out in Table II of section 101 of this Schedule for a brake system malfunction, and that identification symbol shall be legible to the driver in daylight when the indicator lamp is activated, but the legend referred to in section S5.1.3.1(d) of TSD 122 is optional.

(4) The vehicle mass referred to in section S6.1 of TSD 122 is limited to a maximum value equal to the GVWR of the motorcycle.

(5) Despite sections S5.4, S5.5, S7.6, S7.7 and S7.8 of TSD 122, a limited-speed motorcycle is not exempt from the test requirements set out in those sections.

(6) Despite section S6.6 of TSD 122, the wind velocity shall not be greater than 5 m/s.

(7) For the purposes of section S7.6.2 of TSD 122, if a motorcycle is incapable of attaining the required test speed, it shall be tested at the speed attainable in 1.61 km.

 

Expiry Date

(8) This section expires on January 1, 2010.

 

 

Established by

SOR/81-88 1 July, 1981 pursuant to sections 4 and 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act

modified

SOR/88-268 5 May, 1988 pursuant to sections 4 and 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, effective September 1, 1988

The heading preceding section 122 of Schedule IV; subsection 122(1) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsection 122(2) of Schedule IV; subsection 122(3) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsections 122(4) and (5) of Schedule IV; subsection 122(6) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsection 122(7) of Schedule IV; subsection 122(8) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsection 122(9) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsection 122(11) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsection 122(12) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); subsection 122(13) of Schedule IV preceding paragraph (a); and subsections 122(14) to (17) of Schedule IV.

SOR/2001-255 12 July, 2001 pursuant to section 5 and subsection 11(1) of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, into force on January 1, 2002

Section 122 of Schedule IV and the heading before it are replaced.

SOR/2003-272 24 July, 2003 pursuant to section 5 and subsection 11(1) of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, comes into force 24 July, 2003.

Section 122 of Schedule IV is amended by adding subsection (1.1) after the heading "Technical Standards Document No. 122" and before subsection (2); Subsection 122(3) of Schedule IV to the English version is replaced.

SOR/2005-42 February 15 2005 pursuant to section 5 and subsection 11(1) of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, comes into force February 15 2005.

Section 122 of Schedule IV and the headings before it are deleted;  Schedule IV is amended by adding section 122 after section 121.

 

 


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