Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee (part 2 of 3)

9 February 2026

Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee Australian Parliament

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Speaker 2
Ebikes to meet that standard.  Yep.  Yes.  Absolutely.  Thank you. 

Can the department confirm whether 
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Speaker 79
the shipment of Fat Boy ebikes imported in January 2026 comply with e n one five one nine four as required under the amended determination?  Senator, the determination sets out a range of vehicles that are definitely not road vehicles.  The road vehicle standard legislation that we administer is, for the purpose of regulating the supply of road vehicles.  So that determination sets out vehicles that are definitely not road vehicles.  There are other vehicles that may not meet that definition, that that determination, but which are also not road vehicles. 

So the specific bikes that you're talking about, I couldn't say, but we have a process by which people can report to the department vehicles that have come in as purporting to be e bikes, but which people believe are road vehicles, and we have a...  An investigative process that we can look at those those devices or if we come across that information some other way. 

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