Work on the Vehicle Repair Rule (previously entitled Vehicle Standards Compliance (Repair)) was initiated in early 1993 with a call for industry suggestions on what the rule should contain and achieve. A working party, comprising representatives from the insurance industry and from the vehicle repair, manufacturing, importing and in-service inspection industries, was established to discuss the proposed rule in June 1993. It was initially convened by the Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) but was subsequently run by its own convenor with the LTSA as a participant. In 1995 an independent technical writer was commissioned to produce what was in effect the preliminary (red) draft of.
