FEDERAL

MOTOR VEHICLE
SAFETY STANDARDS
AND REGULATIONS

Ministry of Communications

Prepared By:

Controls and Displays - Passenger Cars

This standard requires that essential controls be located within reach of the driver when the
driver is restrained by a lap belt and upper torso restraint, and that certain controls mounted on
the instrument panel be identified.

Transmission Shift Lever Sequence, Starter Interlock, and Transmission Braking Effect
This standard specifies the requirements for the transmission shift lever sequence, a starter
interlock, and for a braking effect of automatic transmissions, to reduce the likelihood of shifting
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errors, starter engagement with vehicle in drive position, and to provide supplemental braking at
speeds below 40 km/h (25 mph).

Hydraulic and Electric Brake Systems - Passenger Cars

This standard specifies requirements for vehicles equipped with hydraulic and electric service
brake systems and associated parking brake systems to ensure safe braking performance under
normal conditions and emergency conditions.

Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment

This standard specifies requirements for original and replacement lamps, reflective devices, and
associated equipment. Its purpose is to reduce traffic crashes and deaths and injuries resulting
from traffic crashes, by providing adequate illumination of the roadway, and by enhancing the
conspicuity of motor vehicles on the public roads so that their presence is perceived and their
signals understood, both in daylight and in darkness or other conditions of reduced visibility

New Pneumatic Tires

This standard specifies tire dimensions and laboratory test requirements for bead unseating
resistance; strength, endurance, and high-speed performance; defines tire load rating; and
specifies labelling requirements.

Tire Selection and Rims

This standard specifies requirements for original equipment tire and rim selection on new cars to
prevent overloading. These include placard requirements relating to load distribution as well as
rim performance requirements under conditions of rapid tire deflation.

Rear-view Mirrors
This standard specifies requirements for the performance and location of inside and outside rear-
view mirrors. Its purpose is to reduce the number of deaths and injuries that occur when the
driver of a motor vehicle does not have a clear and reasonably unobstructed view to the rear

Theft Protection
This standard specifies requirements for theft protection to reduce the incidence of crashes
resulting from unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and to reduce the incidence of crashes
resulting from rollaway of parked vehicles with automatic transmissions

Motorcycle Brake Systems

This standard specifies performance requirements for motorcycle brake systems. Its purpose is to
ensure safe motorcycle braking performance under normal and emergency conditions.
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Accelerator Control Systems

This standard establishes requirements for the return of a vehicle's throttle to the idle position
when the driver removes his or her foot from the accelerator control or in the event of a
severance or disconnection in the accelerator control system

School Bus Pedestrian Safety Devices

This standard establishes requirements for devices that can be installed on school buses to
improve the safety of pedestrians in the vicinity of stopped school buses. Its purpose is to reduce
deaths and injuries by minimizing the likelihood of vehicles passing a stopped school bus and
striking pedestrians in the vicinity of the bus.

Light Vehicle Brake Systems

This standard specifies requirements for vehicles equipped with hydraulic and electric service
brakes and parking brake systems to ensure safe braking performance under normal conditions
and emergency conditions.

Occupant Protection in Interior Impact

This standard specifies performance requirements to provide head impact protection for
occupants.

Passenger Cars Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks and Buses with a Gross
Vehicle Weight Rating of 4,536 kg (10,000 lbs.) or less shall meet requirements for
instrument panels, seat backs, sun visors, and arm rests. Interior compartment doors are
required to remain closed during a crash.

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, and Trucks with a Gross

Vehicle Weight Rating of 4,536 kg (10,000 lbs.) or less, and Buses with a Gross Vehicle
Weight Rating of 3,860 kg (8,510 lbs.) or less shall meet phase-in requirements for vehicle
upper interior components, including, but not limited to, pillars, side rails, roof headers
and the roof.

Passenger Cars, Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles, Trucks with a Gross Vehicle

Weight Rating of 4,536 kg (10,000 lbs.) or less, and Buses with a Gross Vehicle Weight
Rating of 3,860 kg (8,510 lbs.) or less Optional requirements for dynamically deploying
upper interior head protection systems providing head injury protection in lateral
crashes.

Impact Protection for the Driver from the Steering Control System
This standard specifies requirements for minimizing chest, neck, and facial injuries by providing
steering systems that yield forward, cushioning the impact of the driver's chest by absorbing
much of his or her impact energy in front-end crashes. Such systems are highly effective in
reducing the likelihood of serious and fatal injuries.
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Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release

This standard establishes minimum requirements for bus window retention and release to reduce
the likelihood of passenger ejection in crashes; and for emergency exits to facilitate passenger
exit in emergencies. It also requires that each school bus have an interlock system which will
prevent the engine from starting if an emergency door is locked and an audible warning system
which will sound an alarm if an emergency door release mechanism is not closed while the
engine is running.

Motorcycle Helmets
This standard establishes minimum performance requirements for helmets designed for use by
motorcyclists and other motor vehicle users. The purpose of this standard is to reduce deaths and
injuries to motorcyclists and other motor vehicle users resulting from head impacts.

School Bus Passenger seating and Crash Protection

This standard establishes occupant protection requirements for school bus passenger seating and
restraining barriers. The purpose of this standard is to reduce the number of deaths and the
severity of injuries that result from the impact of school bus occupants against structures within
the vehicle during crashes and sudden driving manoeuvres

Fuel System Integrity of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles

This standard specifies requirements for the integrity of motor vehicle fuel systems using
compressed natural gas (CNG), including the CNG fuel systems of befoul, dedicated, and dual fuel
CNG vehicles. The purpose of this standard is to reduce deaths and injuries occurring from fires
that result from fuel leakage during and after motor vehicle crashes.

Compressed Natural Gas Fuel Container Integrity

This standard specifies requirements for the integrity of compressed natural gas (CNG) motor
vehicle fuel containers. The purpose of this standard is to reduce deaths and injuries occurring
from fires that result from fuel leakage during and after motor vehicle crashes. This standard
applies to containers designed to store CNG as motor fuel onboard any motor vehicle.
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The Process of Law Making

The ministry of communication will send this draft to ministry of Law and Justice. It will study this
draft according to constitution and other act of parliament. If draft has any confrontation with
law it will send back to ministry to correct it. Otherwise Law ministry will send draft to Cabinet
Division. Cabinet division after reviewing will send to Cabinet Secretariat. Cabinet Secretariat will
send this draft to cabinet. In the cabinet all ministers including Prime minister will discuss this
draft. If approved by Cabinet this send to Ministry of Communication to present this bill in
Parliament.

The Bills relating to the Federal Legislative List or Concurrent List can originate in either House of
the Federal Parliament i.e. the National Assembly and the Senate

Every Bill goes through four broad stages before it becomes a law or an Act of Parliament:

1. Introduction
2. Publication
3. Consideration
4. Passage

Minister will introduce a Bill after giving to the Secretary a written notice of his/her intention to
do so. The introduction of a Bill is ordinarily included in the List of Business for a day meant for
government business. On that particular day the member-in-charge moves to introduce the Bill.
Once the motion has been made the Bill stands introduced.

Publication of Bills
The Secretary gets the introduced Bill published in the Gazette as early as possible. The Speaker
may, however, order the publication in the Gazette of any bill, together with the statement of
objects and reasons, before its introduction.

Consideration of Bills
Upon introduction, a Bill is referred by the Assembly Speaker (or the Chairman in the case of
Senate) to the appropriate Standing Committee with directions to submit its report by a specified
date. The member-in-charge of the Bill may move that the requirements of this rule be dispensed
with. If the motion is carried, the Speaker may order the consideration of the Bill without
referring it to the Standing Committee.

Committee Report
The Standing Committee studies the Bill and then issues a report that may be favourable with
modifications proposed, unfavourable or without opinion.

After the report of the Standing Committee on the Bill has been presented to the House or its
presentation has been dispensed with (as the case may be), the Secretary
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a) Supplies the copies of the Bill as introduced together with any modifications
recommended by the Standing Committee to each member; and
b) Puts the Bill on the List of the Business for a day meant for government business
It is at least three days after the issue of copies of the Bill to members that the motion for
consideration of the Bill is moved.

Motion for the Consideration of the Bill

On the day appointed for consideration of the Bill, the member-in-charge may make any of the
following motions regarding the bill:

a) That it be taken into consideration at once;

b) That it be taken into consideration on a date to be fixed forthwith;

Discussion of Principles (First Reading)

At this stage only the principles of the Bill and its general provisions are discussed. Members are
not allowed to discuss the details of the Bill further than is necessary to explain its principles .

Procedure after Presentation of Report

After the presentation of the final report move:

a) That the Bill, as reported by the Select Committee, be taken into consideration; or
b) That the Bill, as reported by the Select Committee, be referred to the same Committee
again either as a whole; or

I. with respect to particular clauses or amendments only; or

II. With instructions to the Select Committee to make some particular or
Additional provisions in the Bill

A member may object on the motion for taking the Bill into consideration if s/he has not received
a copy of the report of the Select Committee at least three days before the consideration of the
Bill.
If the member-in-charge moves that the Bill, as reported upon by the Select Committee, be taken
into consideration, any member may move an amendment that the Bill be referred to the same
Committee again or be circulated or re-circulated for the purpose of eliciting opinion.

Consideration of a Bill Clause by Clause (Second Reading)

When a motion that a Bill be taken into consideration has been carried, the Speaker submits the
Bill or any part of the Bill, to the House clause by clause. The Speaker refers to each clause
separately, and when the amendments relating to it have been dealt with, s/he puts the\
question: “That this clause (or, as the case may be, that this clause as amended) do stand part of
the Bill?”

Postponement of a Clause
The Speaker may, if s/he thinks fit, postpone the consideration of a clause.
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Schedule
Once the clauses have been considered one by one, the House moves on to discuss schedule(s).
New schedules if any are dealt with once original schedules have been considered. The Speaker
then puts the question: “That this schedule (or, as the case may be, that this schedule as
amended) do stand part of the Bill?”

Clause One, Preamble and Title of the Bill

Clause one, the preamble, if any, and the title of the Bill stand postponed until the other clauses
and schedules (including new clauses and new schedules) have been disposed of. The Speaker
then puts the question: “That clause one, or the preamble or the title (or, as the case may be that
clause one or the preamble or the title as amended) do stand part of the Bill.”

Passage of Bills
When a motion that a Bill be taken into consideration has been carried and the Bill has been
considered clause by clause, the member-in-charge may at once move that the Bill be passed.
When a motion that the Bill be passed has been made, the general provisions of the Bill may be
discussed but only with reference to the amendments, if any, made in the Bill.

Passage of Bills in the National Assembly and the Senate

If the House passes the Bill through majority vote it is transmitted to the other House. If the other
House passes the Bill without amendment, it goes to the President for assent. If the Bill
transmitted to the other House is not passed within ninety days or rejected or amended, it is
considered in a joint sitting summoned by the President on the request of the House in which the
Bill originated. If the Bill is passed in the joint sitting, with or without amendments, by the votes
of majority of the total members of the two Houses, it again goes to the President or assent.
If the Bill is thus presented to the President for assent, s/he is required to assent to the Bill in no
later than thirty days. The President may return the Bill to the Parliament with a message
requesting that the Bill be reconsidered and/or that an amendment specified in the message be
considered. The Parliament reconsiders the Bill in a joint sitting. If the Bill is passed again, with or
without amendment, it is presented to the President and then the President cannot withhold
assent.