# The Filament Lamps for Vehicles (Safety) Regulations 1982, Note: Explanatory note


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.
2. 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.
TABLE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Item No.
Number of item in Table to Regulation 2(1)
Category—letters and numbers—provided by ECE Regulation 37
Type of lamp in which filament lamp is normally used
Rated wattage specified in ECE Regulation or Community Instrument
Numbers given to filament lamps in trade practice
6 volts
12 volts
24 volts
6 volts
12 volts
24 volts
1.
1, 4 and 5
R2
Headlamp
45/40
45/40
55/50
423.424
410.411
428.429
2.
2 and 4
H1
Headlamp & auxiliary lamp
55
55
70
465
448
466
3.
2 and 4
H2
Headlamp & auxiliary lamp
55
55
70
—
479
482
4.
2 and 4
H3
Headlamp & auxiliary lamp
55
55
70
455
453
460
5.
3 and 4
H4
Headlamp
—
60/55
75/70
—
472.476
475.478
6.
4
F1
Auxiliary lamp
36
48
44
173
323
330.606
7.
4
F2
Auxiliary lamp
35
35
35
—
—
—
8.
4
F3
Auxiliary lamp
45
45
50
—
—
—
9.
4
P25-1
Direction indicator, stop, rear fog or reversing lamp
21
21
21
317.319
335.382
241.290
291.346
10.
4
P25-2
Stop or rear position lamp
21/5
21/5
21/5
384
380.927
294
11.
4
R19/5
Front, rear position, side marker or number plate lamp
5
5
5
205.206
207.209
225.226
928
149.150
247.248
12.
4
R19/10
Number plate lamp
10
10
10
244
245
246
13.
4
C11
Rear lamp
5
5
5
—
239
242
14.
4
C15
Reversing lamp
—
21
—
—
273
—
15.
4
T8/4
Position and number plate lamp
4
4
4
293
233.929
249
16.
4
W10/5
Position and number plate lamp
5
5
5
—
501.930
507
17.
4
W10/3
Side repeater lamp
3
3
3
—
504
505

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/444/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/filament-lamps-for-vehicles-safety-regulations-1982/note
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