High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Between 1990 and 1992, Australian states introduced laws requiring people riding bicycles to wear bicycle helmets. The current legally required standard for a bicycle helmet is AS/NZS 2063. The law is laid out in Part 15 of the Australian Road Rules, approved by the Australian Transport Council. It specifies that "The rider of a bicycle must wear an approved bicycle helmet securely fitted and fastened on the rider’s head, unless the rider is exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet under another law of this jurisdiction." The law also requires helmet use by certain bicycle passengers.