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MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY ACT

Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations

Standard 118



Power-operated Windows, Power-operated Partitions and
Power-operated Roof Panels

118. (1) A power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel fitted on an enclosed motorcycle, passenger car, three-wheeled vehicle, multipurpose passenger vehicle or truck having a GVWR of not more than 4 536 kg may be closed only

(a) where the ignition switch is in the ON, START or ACCESSORY position;

(b) where a muscular force unassisted by a power source within the vehicle is applied;

(c) where a locking system on the exterior of the vehicle is activated;

(d) between the time the ignition switch is turned to the OFF position and the time a front door of the vehicle is opened far enough to allow any person to exit the vehicle;

(e) where a remote control is activated;

(f) in the case of a power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel designed to close automatically, where the opening in that window, partition or roof panel is not large enough to allow the passage, in the manner described in subsection (3), of a semi-rigid cylindrical rod 4 mm in diameter; or

(g) where that power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel is equipped with an automatic reversal system.

(2) An automatic reversal system referred to in paragraph (1)(g) shall reverse the direction of the power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel

(a) before that window, partition or roof panel comes into contact with the semi-rigid cylindrical rods referred to in subsections (3) and (4); or

(b) when that window, partition or roof panel exerts a maximum squeezing force of 100 N on the semi-rigid cylindrical rods referred to in subsections (3) and (4).

(3) For the purpose of testing an automatic reversal system referred to in paragraph (1)(g), a semi-rigid cylindrical rod 4 mm in diameter shall be introduced from the inside of the vehicle through each point of the opening left by the power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel, in such a way that the surface of the rod is in contact with any part of the structure with which that window, partition or roof panel mates.

(4) The test described in subsection (3) shall be repeated using a semi-rigid cylindrical rod 200 mm in diameter.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), where the opening of the power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel is less than 200 mm, the diameter of the rod referred to in subsection (4) shall be equal to that opening.

(6) Once the automatic reversal system referred to in paragraph (1)(g) is activated, the power-operated window, power-operated partition or power-operated roof panel shall

(a) open to a position that permits a semi-rigid cylindrical rod 200 mm in diameter to be passed through the opening; or

(b) shall retract to a position that is at least as open as the position of that window, partition or roof panel at the time its closing was initiated.

(7) A vehicle referred to in subsection (1) shall be equipped with an automatic reversal system where the closing of a power-operated window, a power-operated partition or a power-operated roof panel is triggered

(a) by single activation of the locking system referred to in paragraph (1)(c); or

(b) by remote control.

(8) Notwithstanding paragraph (7)(b), a vehicle referred to in subsection (1) need not be equipped with an automatic reversal system where the closing of a power-operated window, a power-operated partition, or a power-operated roof panel can occur only where

(a) the remote control referred to in paragraph (7)(b) is continuously operated; and

(b) there is no obstruction between the remote control and that window, partition or roof panel.

(9) The semi-rigid cylindrical rods referred to in subsections (3) to (5) shall have a force-deflection ratio of at least 65 N/mm for a rod not larger than 25 mm in diameter and of at least 20 N/mm for a rod larger than 25 mm in diameter.

Established by the CONSOLIDATED REGULATIONS OF CANADA, 1978.

amended by

SOR/79-940 6 December, 1979 pursuant to sections 4 and 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act

Section 119 of Schedule IV is renumbered section 118.

SOR/86-682 19 June, 1986 pursuant to sections 4 and 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act

Revoked and replaced.

SOR/95-164 28 March, 1995 pursuant to sections 4 and 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act

Revoked and replaced.

SOR/97-421 28 August, 1997 pursuant to section 5(1) and section 11 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act, in force August 28, 1997

Paragraph 118(2)(b) of Schedule IV.

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.

The portion of subsection 118(1) of Schedule IV before paragraph (a) is replaced.


Last updated: 2005-03-02 Top of Page Important Notices