{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/filament-lamps-for-vehicles-safety-regulations-1982/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/444",
  "legislation_title": "The Filament Lamps for Vehicles (Safety) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/filament-lamps-for-vehicles-safety-regulations-1982",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "1. These Regulations prohibit a person from supplying, offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply or possessing for supply any filament lamp of a type to which an ECE Regulation or Community Instrument mentioned in an item in column 2 of the Table to Regulation 2 applies unless it is marked with a marking designated as an approval mark by the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979.\n2. The following Table is added as a matter of convenience. Where the number of an item in the Table to Regulation 2(1) is specified in column 2 in an item in the Table below, the ECE Regulation or Community Instrument mentioned in the item in the Table to Regulation 2(1) categorises the filament lamps to which it relates by the letters and numbers specified in the item in column 3 of the Table below. The type of lamp (as described in the ECE Regulation or Community Instrument) in which a filament lamp so categorised is normally used is indicated in the relevant item in column 4 of the Table below, and the rated wattage of such a filament lamp as specified in the ECE Regulation or Community Instrument is as shown in that item in column 5 of that Table. Where, in column 6 of the Table below, a number is shown that number is the one usually given to the filament lamp as a matter of trade practice.\nTABLE\n1.\n2.\n3.\n4.\n5.\n6.\nItem No.\nNumber of item in Table to Regulation 2(1)\nCategory—letters and numbers—provided by ECE Regulation 37\nType of lamp in which filament lamp is normally used\nRated wattage specified in ECE Regulation or Community Instrument\nNumbers given to filament lamps in trade practice\n6 volts\n12 volts\n24 volts\n6 volts\n12 volts\n24 volts\n1.\n1, 4 and 5\nR2\nHeadlamp\n45/40\n45/40\n55/50\n423.424\n410.411\n428.429\n2.\n2 and 4\nH1\nHeadlamp & auxiliary lamp\n55\n55\n70\n465\n448\n466\n3.\n2 and 4\nH2\nHeadlamp & auxiliary lamp\n55\n55\n70\n—\n479\n482\n4.\n2 and 4\nH3\nHeadlamp & auxiliary lamp\n55\n55\n70\n455\n453\n460\n5.\n3 and 4\nH4\nHeadlamp\n—\n60/55\n75/70\n—\n472.476\n475.478\n6.\n4\nF1\nAuxiliary lamp\n36\n48\n44\n173\n323\n330.606\n7.\n4\nF2\nAuxiliary lamp\n35\n35\n35\n—\n—\n—\n8.\n4\nF3\nAuxiliary lamp\n45\n45\n50\n—\n—\n—\n9.\n4\nP25-1\nDirection indicator, stop, rear fog or reversing lamp\n21\n21\n21\n317.319\n335.382\n241.290\n291.346\n10.\n4\nP25-2\nStop or rear position lamp\n21/5\n21/5\n21/5\n384\n380.927\n294\n11.\n4\nR19/5\nFront, rear position, side marker or number plate lamp\n5\n5\n5\n205.206\n207.209\n225.226\n928\n149.150\n247.248\n12.\n4\nR19/10\nNumber plate lamp\n10\n10\n10\n244\n245\n246\n13.\n4\nC11\nRear lamp\n5\n5\n5\n—\n239\n242\n14.\n4\nC15\nReversing lamp\n—\n21\n—\n—\n273\n—\n15.\n4\nT8/4\nPosition and number plate lamp\n4\n4\n4\n293\n233.929\n249\n16.\n4\nW10/5\nPosition and number plate lamp\n5\n5\n5\n—\n501.930\n507\n17.\n4\nW10/3\nSide repeater lamp\n3\n3\n3\n—\n504\n505",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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