{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/regulation-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/regulation-3A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1796",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/3A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Equivalent standards",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in these Regulations shall render unlawful any act or omission which would have been lawful were—\n(a) there to be substituted for any reference to a British Standard in these Regulations a reference to a corresponding standard, and\n(b) regulation 3(6) to apply in relation to that corresponding standard and the markings relating to that corresponding standard as it applies to a British Standard.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “corresponding standard”, in relation to a relevant British Standard Specification, means—\n(a) a standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of any State within the European Economic Area;\n(b) any international standard recognised for use as a standard by any State within the European Economic Area;\n(c) a technical specification or code of practice which, whether mandatory or not, is recognised for use as a standard by a public authority of any State within the European Economic Area,\nwhere the standard, code of practice, international standard or technical specification provides, in relation to lamps, retro reflectors and rear markings, a level of safety equivalent to that provided by that British Standard Specification and contains a requirement as respects the marking of such parts equivalent to that provided by that instrument.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3A inserted (1.10.1994) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:36:39.481273+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}