Maybe contact your RAA legal department (if there is one)

Jeez Qld, NT and WA are full of roof rack lights. Pig and roo shooters use them all the time.
If the lights were fitted when your vehicle was inspected, why didn't they pick it up?
Maybe the 2 sections aren't communicating under the common laws.
It happens all the time.
The precedent has been set. Unfortunately you've been pinged for something you should have been advised about initially.
This country is so confused, and they expect us to get it right?
We don't have a hope boys and girls.

Just because you see a lot of vehicles that have lights fitted to roof racks etc. it doesn't make them legal. As Grumps has stated their mounting position is covered by ADR's. These are Federal laws and negate any State laws that may previously existed.
It's a bit like Rod Holders on Bull Bars. Boy! I saw heaps on our recent trip to QLD.
Under the ADR's they to are illegal and so are loads of other stuff. We all go merrily on our way quite oblivious to the laws until we get booked. That's life I suppose.
ozjohn.

this is why we need to have one rule for all states, its stupid other wise

Cripes, I have inbuilt spotties on the roof bar of my Nissan X Trail, they were fitted on my model (2003) as standard (one on each side) and are built into the housing of the roof bar.

There is a separate switch for them inside the cab and have to be turned on there, however if you dip your main high beam lights they turn off and have to be switched on again. They are ideal for travelling at night on country roads with no street lights, if a vehicle is approaching you dip your lights and they go off.

Also hand on bush tracks to pick out overhanging branches etc.

So now according this what I have read here I could cop a fine, even though the vehicle was manufactured with them like this.......sheesh !

Oh Wombat! So many questions, so little time.
The worst thing this country has done is sell it's utilities and infrastructure to the private sector.
These corporations are only in it for profit. Huge salaries are paid to their executives, and the shareholders are potentially "rolling in it".
We, the humble customer keep them in the manner to which they've become accustomed.
Now we are encouraged to save power, reduce our impact on energy etc.
That doesn't suit the corporations so they up the cost of power to maintain their profits even though you're using less electricity, waster or gas.
The banks work the same. It's really scary how this is panning out since deregulation.
The tollways system has been sold to private operators. So what percentage goes back into the coffers for which tolls were introduced initially. The Sydney Harbour Bridge toll was introduced to recover the cost of the bridge. This doesn't apply now.
Brisbane charges a toll on every road it seems. Yet this is managed by a private company, which I believe also manages the tolls in Sydney and Melbourne. They get the proceeds, but how much do they pay to the Government? The toll management mob want to make a profit. They're not a charity, I'm sure.
Now the Qld Government is selling the railway network - the infrastructure and the trains. It's currently owned by the taxpayer, right?
Well they're offering "cheap shares" to the taxpayers before they hand it over to the private operator. Why don't they offer "free" shares in proportion to the rates they currently pay?
Not Anna Bligh. She's a bigger pirate than her ancestor.
Now I think it's time to give the Aborigines their land back - no houses, no money, no cars, no disposable nappies, not grog, no KFC.
If the early settlers "stole" their land, and they have what they have now, but they want their land back, let's do it. Give it back as it was 250 years ago when the settlers arrived.
If it wasn't for settlement they wouldn't have what they have now. They can't have it both ways.
No one gets to have their cake AND eat it too, all the time.
Here endeth today's lesson. (I think I've just had a Fire Fly binge-thinking moment)

Hey Guys n Gals,
 
VHW buddy I would think that your high set lights being factory fit would make them legal as they are fitted as part of the vehicle build, if a copper were to issue a fine on them they would be a very very brave copper indeed....

In actual fact there is one set of rules Milo, The Australian Design Rules (ADR) and Australian Standards (ASO), the issue is that each state has had differing state based road and traffic acts and when these were aligned over the past few years each state concentrated on different areas and forgot to pass on information regarding small changes (eg..spotties) that affect everyone, they concentrated as a whole on the important daily things like roundabout ettiquette and common daily driving tasks that were more suited to the city folk, they in turn forgot about the minority country and off road drivers who are in fact the majority in the most cases.

For example in SA, Victoria & WA for instance they clamped down on the old style 5 bar bullbar, which is now illegal accross Australia due to pedestrian safety issues, the old style bar was designed to push the struck object down and under the vehicle and away from the body work to offer panel damage protection, whereas the new style is to push the object struck upwards and onto the bonnet to prevent entrapment & subsequent dragging beneath the vehicle.  

This has come about because so many people just walk out in front of traffic these days instead of actually looking where they are going, all too busy listening to their ipods and talking on their mobiles.

The traffic laws have become standardised to a great extent accross Australia over the past few years and we will see this more and more as the years go by, it will get better but as with anything the government gets its hands on it will take decades to complete and even longer to be successful. 

As for the differing state laws, it all is governed by Federal Law guidelines which all state laws must comply, much the same as the Local Government Association in Qld puts out sample laws for the councils to use as masters for their individual local laws, the Federal ruling body does the same for the states. 

As a side to this rather long winded essay and a bit of trivia this is the general heierarchy of laws, it is quite simple in its basis;

Level 1: Federal/Commonwealth is the superior rule/law in ALL cases.
Level 2: State Laws are suboardinate to Federal/Commonwealth
Level 3: Local (Council/District/Shire) Laws are suboardinate to State

In all cases if the superior law is unsafe or likely to cause unsafe practices then the next Suboardinate law becomes superior for that section only.

If I have made any errors in this long winded diatribe please forgive my malevolence.....you can beat me later....3 whips overthe pee pee witha wet boot lace will suffice.

Hoo Roo Happy Days
Grumps

Small point with 'add-on' lights, if they are not electrically connected, they are not 'fitted'.

Recent challenge in court proved that one.

So, fit a removable section in the wiring like the roo shooters I've known have done.

The section of the ADRs that may fox you though is the bit about air bags, braking assists, stability devices etc.
Anything that interferes with their normal operations will require specific permits.

This for WA, in case.