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(Regulation 18)
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Type of lamp, reflector, rear marking or device | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Front position lamp | Schedule 2: Part I | None. |
Dim-dip device or running lamp | Schedule 3: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 40 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1987; A home forces' vehicle; A vehicle in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied– (a) there is fitted to the vehicle all the lighting and light-signalling devices listed in items 1.5.7 to 1.5.20 of Annex I of [F1Community Directive 76/756/EEC as last amended by Directive 89/278/EEC or Community Directive 76/756/EEC as last amended by Directive 91/663/ EEC], as amended, which are required to be fitted under that Annex; and (b) all those devices are so installed that they comply with the requirements set out in items 3 and 4 of that Annex including, in particular, item 4.2.6 (Alignment of dipped-beam headlamps). |
Dipped-beam headlamp | Schedule 4: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 15 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1931. |
Main-beam headlamp | Schedule 5: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1931. |
Direction indicator | Schedule 7: Part I | An invalid carriage having a maximum speed not exceeding 4 mph and any other vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 15 mph; An agricultural vehicle having an unladen weight not exceeding 255 kg; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle, an industrial tractor or a works truck; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1936. |
Hazard warning signal device | Schedule 8: Part I | A vehicle not required to be fitted with direction indicators; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986. |
Side marker lamp | Schedule 9: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A passenger vehicle; An incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; A vehicle the overall length of which does not exceed 6 m; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1991; [F2A vehicle first used before 1st April 1996 in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied]– (a) there is fitted to the vehicle all the lighting and light-signalling devices listed in items 1.5.7 to 1.5.20 of Annex I of [F3Community Directive 76/756/EEC as last amended by Directive 89/278/EEC or Community Directive 76/756/EEC as last amended by Directive 91/663/ EEC], as amended, which are required to be fitted under that Annex; and (b) all those devices are so installed that they comply with the requirements set out in items 3 and 4 of that Annex including, in particular, item 4.2.6 (Alignment of dipped-beam headlamps). |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | None. |
Rear fog lamp | Schedule 11: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1980; A vehicle having an overall width which does not exceed 1300 mm. |
Stop lamp | Schedule 12: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1936. |
End-outline marker lamp | Schedule 13: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A motor vehicle having an overall width not exceeding 2100 mm; An incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; A motor vehicle first used before 1st April 1991. |
Rear registration plate lamp | Schedule 15. | A vehicle not required to be fitted with a rear registration plate; A works truck. |
Side retro reflector | Schedule 17: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A goods vehicle– (a) first used on or after 1st April 1986, the overall length of which does not exceed 6 m; or (b) first used before 1st April 1986, the overall length of which does not exceed 8 m; A passenger vehicle; An incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; A vehicle primarily constructed for moving excavated material and being used by virtue of an Order under section 44 of the Act; A mobile crane or engineering plant. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | None. |
Rear marking | Schedule 19: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st August 1982, the unladen weight of which does not exceed 3050 kg; A vehicle the maximum gross weight of which does not exceed 7500 kg; A passenger vehicle not being an articulated bus; A tractive unit for an articulated vehicle; An incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle, a works truck or engineering plant; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1940; A home forces' vehicle; A vehicle constructed or adapted for– (a) fire fighting or fire salvage; (b) servicing or controlling aircraft; (c) heating and dispensing tar or other material for the construction or maintenance of roads; or (d) transporting two or more vehicles or vehicle bodies or two or more boats[F4;] [F5A vehicle fitted with conspicuity markings to the rear where the fitting of those markings complies with the mandatory or optional ECE conspicuity requirements.] |
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 1 Table 1 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 10(2)(a)
F2Words in Sch. 1 Table 1 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 10(3)
F3Words in Sch. 1 Table 1 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 10(2)(b)
F4Semicolon in Sch. 1 Table 1 substituted for full stop (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 10(2)(a)
F5Words in Sch. 1 Table 1 added (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 10(2)(b)
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Type of lamp or reflector | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Front position lamp | Schedule 2: Part I | A solo motor bicycle fitted with a headlamp. |
Dipped-beam headlamp | Schedule 4: Part I | A vehicle first used before 1st January 1931. |
Main-beam headlamp | Schedule 5: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1972 and having an engine with a capacity of less than 50 cc; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1931. |
Direction indicator | Schedule 7: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986; A vehicle which is constructed or adapted primarily for use off roads (whether by reason of its tyres, suspension, ground clearance or otherwise) and which can carry only one person or which, in the case of a motor bicycle combination, can carry only the rider and one passenger in the sidecar. |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | None. |
Stop lamp | Schedule 12: Part I | A vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph; A vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 and having an engine with a capacity of less than 50 cc; A vehicle first used before 1st January 1936. |
Rear registration plate lamp | Schedule 15 | A vehicle not required to be fitted with a rear registration plate. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | None. |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
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Type of lamp or reflector | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Front position lamp | Schedule 2: Part I | None. |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | None. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | None. |
Pedal retro reflector | Schedule 20: Part I | A pedal cycle manufactured before 1st October 1985. |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
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Type of lamp or reflector | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Front position lamp | Schedule 2: Part I | None. |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | None. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | None. |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
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Type of lamp or reflector | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Front position lamp | Schedule 2: Part I | None. |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | A vehicle fitted with a rear retro reflector. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | A vehicle fitted with a rear position lamp. |
(1) | (2) | (3) |
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Type of lamp, reflector or rear marking | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Front position lamp | Schedule 2: Part I | A trailer with an overall width not exceeding 1600 mm; A trailer manufactured before 1st October 1985 the overall length of which, excluding any drawbar and any fitting for its attachment, does not exceed 2300 mm; A trailer constructed or adapted for the carriage and launching of a boat. |
Direction indicator | Schedule 7: Part I | A trailer manufactured before 1st September 1965; An agricultural vehicle or a works trailer in either case manufactured before 1st October 1990. |
Side marker lamp | Schedule 9: Part I | A trailer the overall length of which, excluding any drawbar and any fitting for its attachment, does not exceed– (a) 6 m, (b) 9.15 m in the case of a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990; An incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; An agricultural vehicle or a works trailer; A caravan; A trailer constructed or adapted for the carriage and launching of a boat; [F6A trailer manufactured before 1st October 1995 in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied]– (a) there is fitted to the trailer all the lighting and light-signalling devices listed in items 1.5.7 to 1.5.20 of Annex I of [F7Community Directive 76/756/EEC as last amended by Directive 89/278/EEC or Community Directive 76/756/EEC as last amended by Directive 91/663/ EEC], as amended, which are required to be fitted under that Annex; and (b) all those devices are so installed and maintained that they comply with the requirements set out in items 3 and 4 of that Annex. |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | None. |
Rear fog lamp | Schedule 11: Part I | A trailer manufactured before 1st April 1980; A trailer the overall width of which does not exceed 1300 mm; An agricultural vehicle or a works trailer. |
Stop lamp | Schedule 12: Part I | An agricultural vehicle or a works trailer. |
End-outline marker lamp | Schedule 13: Part I | A trailer having an overall width not exceeding 2100 mm; An incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; An agricultural vehicle or a works trailer; A trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990. |
Rear registration plate lamp | Schedule 15 | A trailer not required to be fitted with a rear registration plate. |
Side retro reflector | Schedule 17: Part I | A trailer the overall length of which, excluding any drawbar, does not exceed 5 m; An incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; Engineering plant; A trailer primarily constructed for moving excavated material and which is being used by virtue of an Order under section 44 of the Act. |
Front retro reflector | Schedule 21: Part I | A trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990; An agricultural vehicle or a works trailer. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | None. |
Rear marking | Schedule 19: Part I | A trailer manufactured before 1st August 1982 the unladen weight of which does not exceed 1020 kg; A trailer the maximum gross weight of which does not exceed 3500 kg; An incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale; An agricultural vehicle, a works trailer or engineering plant; A trailer drawn by a bus; A home forces' vehicle; A trailer constructed or adapted for– (a) fire fighting or fire salvage; (b) servicing or controlling aircraft; (c) heating and dispensing tar or other material for the construction or maintenance of roads; (d) carrying asphalt or macadam, in each case being mixing or drying plant; or (e) transporting two or more vehicles or vehicle bodies or two or more boats[F8;] [F9A trailer fitted with conspicuity markings to the rear where the fitting of those markings complies with the mandatory or optional ECE conspicuity requirements.] |
Textual Amendments
F6Words in Sch. 1 Table 6 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 10(4)
F7Words in Sch. 1 Table 6 substituted (1.10.1994) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 10(2)(b)
F8Semicolon in Sch. 1 Table 6 substituted for full stop (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 10(3)(a)
F9Words in Sch. 1 Table 6 added (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 10(3)(b)
(1) | (2) | (3) |
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Type of lamp, reflector or rear marking | Schedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified | Exceptions |
Rear position lamp | Schedule 10: Part I | None. |
Rear retro reflector | Schedule 18: Part I | None. |
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