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Economic and Social	GENERAL

Council	TRANS/WP.29/712
11 April 2000

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ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29)

CORRIGENDUM 1 TO THE 07 SERIES OF AMENDMENTS TO REGULATION No. 17

(Strength of seats )

Note: The text reproduced below was adopted by the Administrative Committee (AC.1) of the amended 1958 Agreement at its fourteenth session, following the recommendation by WP.29 at its one-hundred-and-twentieth session. It is based on document TRANS/WP.29/2000/26, not amended (TRANS/WP.29/703, para. 180).

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Paragraph 1., amend to read (footnotes 1/ and 2/ unchanged):

"1.	This Regulation applies to the strength of seats, to their anchorages and to their head restraints, of vehicles of categories M1 and N, and to the strength of seats, to their anchorages and to their head restraints, of vehicles of categories M2 and M3, not covered by Regulation No. 80, 01 series of amendments. 1/ 2/

It also applies to the design of the rear parts of seat-backs 2/ and to devices intended to protect the occupants from the danger resulting from the displacement of luggage in a frontal impact, of vehicles of category M1.

It does not apply to folding, side-facing or rearward-facing seats, or to any head restraint fitted to these seats."