I have tried to find a way to get forward facing seats in a RFSV in WA and stopped as the cost would have been to expensive to continue.
As you say WA inspectors take the lead from NT and will not allow the seats in a loadspace so in the original format they are not allowed.
I got a vehicle engineer to look into the issue for me and was told as a minimum I had to put a cargo barrier to split the tray into cargo space and passenger space.
The issue with this was that if I did the seats could not be at the front of the tray or they did not have suitable access.
The remaining options were to put the seats at the rear of the tray with a new compliant roll cage, or have the seats on one side under the existing RFSV ROPS and have an a access down one side to the back with a barrier, both which would look wrong and were not what I wanted.
The only real option I found was to convince DVLC the rear area could only be used for passengers not cargo, which was going to be an issue when the DVLC have the inspection guidelines saying seats must be removed.
Running out of options the engineer suggested an expensive alternative that might work would be to recomply, it not as a Land Rover, but as a custom vehicle with seats in the back, I dont know what would be involved but he said as it would be a new custom it would need to meet current emissions standards and I wasnt sure a 25 yo vehicle would without a motor swap.
In short I gave up so my vehicle only has a 2 person capacity.
There are a few RFSV's with the single rear facing seat compliant on the compliance plate and WA will honour this but there are not many so ask the owners of any RFSV's for sale what is on the compliance plate.
If you persue this and find out anything that may help or manage to install legal seats in the rear in WA (facing any direction), please keep me posted.
