The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Colour of light shown by lamps and reflectors (including reflectors on rear markings and signs on buses carrying children)

5.—(1) Regulation 11 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraphs (1) and (2), after the word “lamp” where it first appears in each case there shall be added the words “or retro reflective material”.

(3) In paragraph (2)(t), for the words “rear marking of a type” to “fitted to” there shall be substituted the words “prescribed rear marking fitted in the appropriate manner to”;

(4) The word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (t) of sub-paragraph (2) shall be omitted and after sub-paragraph (u) of that sub-paragraph there shall be added the following—

“(v) reflected light from yellow retro reflective material incorporated in a prescribed sign and fitted to the rear of a bus; or

(w) reflected light from yellow retro reflective material incorporated in a sign fitted to the rear of a bus in accordance with paragraph (4).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(t), a rear marking fitted to a vehicle is a prescribed rear marking fitted in the appropriate manner if the rear marking—

(a) is a rear marking of a description specified in the entry applicable to that vehicle in the right hand column of paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 19, and

(b) complies with paragraphs 2 to 7 of that Part of that Schedule.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(w), a sign (“the secondary sign”) is fitted to the rear of a bus in accordance with this paragraph if—

(a) a prescribed sign is also fitted to the rear of a bus;

(b) the total area of the retro reflective material incorporated in the secondary sign is no greater than the area of the prescribed sign; and

(c) the secondary sign satisfies the requirements specified—

(i) in the case of a bus which is owned or hired by a local education authority or any person managing an education establishment attended by children under the age of 16 years, in paragraph (5) or (6); or

(ii) in any other case, in paragraph (6).

(5) The requirements referred to in paragraph (4)(c)(i) are that the secondary sign contains no words or other markings apart from words or markings identifying the local education authority or the educational establishment (as the case may be).

(6) The requirements referred to in paragraph (4)(c)(ii) are that the secondary sign contains no words or other markings apart from words or other markings which—

(a) indicate that children are on board the bus when it is in motion or likely to be on board the bus or in its vicinity when it is stationary, and

(b) are calculated to reduce the risk of road accidents involving such children.”