front outboard positions shall be suit able for safety belts incorporating a retractor and pulley, taking into consideration in particular the strength characteristics of the belt anchorages, unless the manufacturer supplies the vehicle equipped with other types of safety belts which
►M3 incorporate retractors. This provision shall not apply to vehicles for which, according to item 4.3, lap belts only for front outboard seat ing positions are allowed. If anchorages ◄are suitable only for particular types of safety belts, their types shall be stated on the form mentioned in point 3.1 above;
4.2.1.2. reduce to a minimum the risk of the belt slipping when worn correctly;
4.2.1.3. reduce to a minimum the risk of strap damage due to contact with sharp rigid parts of the vehicle or seat structures.
4.2.2. For belt anchorages which take up different positions to allow persons to enter the vehicle and for restraining the occupants, the specifications of this Directive shall apply to the belt anchorages in the effective restraint position.
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4.3. Minimum number of belt anchorages to be provided (see Appendix 1).
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4.3.1. Any vehicle in categories M and N (except those vehicles in categories M2 and M3 hich are designed for both urban use and 2 3 standing passengers) must be equipped with safety belt anchorages which satisfy the requirements of this Directive.
4.3.2. The minimum number of safety belt anchorages for each forward and rearward
directed seating position shall be as specified in Appendix 1.
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4.3.3. However, for outboar d seating positions — other than front — of
vehicles of the category M , s hown in Appendix 1 and marked with the symbol Ø, two lower anchorages are a llowed, where there exists a passage between a seat and the nearest side wall of the vehicle intended to permit access of passengers to other parts of the vehicle. A space between a seat and the side wall is considered as a passage, if the distance between that side wall, with all doors cl osed, and a vertical longitudinal plane
passing through the centreline of the seat concerned — measured at the R-point position and perpendicularly to the median longitudinal plane of the vehicle — is more than 500 mm.
4.3.4. For the front centre seating positions shown in Appendix 1 and marked with the symbol *, two lower anchorages shall be considered adequate where the windscreen is located outside the reference zone defined in Annex II to Directive 74/60/EEC; if loca ted inside this reference zone, three anchorages are required.