Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1038) Alternative Requirements for Headlamps

Alternative Requirements for Headlamps

108.1 (1) As an alternative to the headlamps required by section 108 of this Schedule, passenger cars, multi-purpose passenger vehicles, buses and trucks may be equipped with headlamps that emit white light and that

• (a) comply with

  • (i) ECE Regulation No. 8, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Motor Vehicle Headlamps Emitting an Asymmetrical Passing Beam or a Driving Beam or Both and Equipped with Halogen Filament Lamps (H₁, H₂, H₃, HB₃, HB₄, H₇, H₈, H₉, HIR1, HIR2 and/or H₁₁), as amended from time to time,

  • (ii) ECE Regulation No. 20, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Motor Vehicle Headlamps Emitting an Asymmetrical Passing Beam or a Driving Beam or Both and Equipped with Halogen Filament Lamps (H₄ Lamps), as amended from time to time,

  • (iii) ECE Regulation No. 31, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Halogen Sealed-beam Unit (HSB Unit) Motor Vehicle Headlamps Emitting an Asymmetrical Passing Beam or a Driving Beam or Both, as amended from time to time,

  • (iv) ECE Regulation No. 98, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Motor Vehicle Headlamps Equipped with Gas-discharge Light Sources, as amended from time to time, or

  • (v) ECE Regulation No. 112, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Motor Vehicle Headlamps Emitting an Asymmetrical Passing Beam or a Driving Beam or Both and Equipped with Filament Lamps, as amended from time to time;

• (b) despite the requirements of the ECE Regulations referred to in this section, are set to be used on vehicles designed to travel on the right-hand side of the road;

• (c) provide two upper beams and two lower beams;

• (d) conform to

  • (i) paragraphs S5.1.2, S5.5.9, S7.4(g) and (h), S7.8.2, S7.8.2.1(a) and (b), S7.8.2.2, S7.8.3, S7.8.4 and S7.8.5.1(c) of TSD 108, and

  • (ii) subsections 108(29) and, if applicable, (30);

• (e) comply with sections 5.1.2, 5.1.4 and, if applicable, 5.1.6 of SAE Standard J580, Sealed Beam Headlamp Assembly (December 1986);

• (f) are fitted with bulbs that conform to

  • (i) a document referred to in paragraph 108(5)(a) or the information provided pursuant to paragraph 108(5)(b), and

  • (ii) paragraphs S7.7 of TSD 108, except that the “DOT” symbol referred to in paragraphs S7.7(a) and (e)(7) is not required; and

• (g) when activated in a steady-burning state, do not have any styling ornament or other feature, such as a translucent cover or grill, in front of the lens.

(2) As an alternative to the headlamps required by section 108, motorcycles may be equipped with headlamps that emit white light and that

• (a) provide one upper beam and one lower beam, or two upper beams and two lower beams;

• (b) comply with

  • (i) subparagraphs (1)(a)(i) to (iii) and (v) and paragraphs (1)(b) and (d) to (f),

  • (ii) ECE Regulation No. 57, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Headlamps for Motor Cycles and Vehicles Treated as Such, as amended from time to time,

  • (iii) ECE Regulation No. 72, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Motor Cycle Headlamps Emitting an Asymmetrical Passing Beam and a Driving Beam and Equipped with Halogen Lamps (HS₁ Lamps), as amended from time to time, or

  • (iv) ECE Regulation No. 113, Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Motor Vehicle Headlamps Emitting a Symmetrical Passing Beam or a Driving Beam or Both and Equipped with Filament Lamps, as amended from time to time; and

• (c) conform to subsections 108(12), (29) and, if applicable, (30).

(3) As an alternative to the requirements of the ECE Regulations referred to in this section, headlamps fitted on a vehicle may emit white light as specified in SAE Standard J578, Color Specification (May 1988).

(4) For the purposes of this section, the following requirements of the ECE Regulations referred to in subsections (1) and (2) do not apply:

• (a) any requirements respecting the approval process;

• (b) any requirements respecting the marking of approved headlamps; and

• (c) any requirements respecting

  • (i) the conformity of headlamp production to the type approved,

  • (ii) the penalties for non-conformity of production, and

  • (iii) the modification of a headlamp type and extension of approval.

(5) The total intensity of the upper beams of the headlamps of a vehicle equipped pursuant to this section shall not exceed 225,000 cd at any point in the beam pattern when measured at 12 V.

(6) Except for headlamps with plastic lenses, wipers may be fitted to the headlamps of a vehicle equipped pursuant to this section, if the headlamps conform to all of the applicable photometric requirements when the wipers are stopped in any position in front of the lenses.

(7) [Repealed, SOR/91-692, s. 3]