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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1796",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "OBLIGATORY LAMPS, REFLECTORS, REAR MARKINGS AND DEVICES",
  "text": "TABLE I\nMotor vehicle having three or more wheels not being a vehicle to which any other Table in this Schedule applies\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp, reflector, rear marking or device\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nFront position lamp\nSchedule 2: Part I\nNone.\nDim-dip device or running lamp\nSchedule 3: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 40 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1987;\nA home forces' vehicle;\nA vehicle in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied–\n(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 Community 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\n(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).\nDipped-beam headlamp\nSchedule 4: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 15 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1931.\nMain-beam headlamp\nSchedule 5: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1931.\nDirection indicator\nSchedule 7: Part I\nAn invalid carriage having a maximum speed not exceeding 4 mph and any other vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 15 mph;\nAn agricultural vehicle having an unladen weight not exceeding 255 kg;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle, an industrial tractor or a works truck;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1936.\nHazard warning signal device\nSchedule 8: Part I\nA vehicle not required to be fitted with direction indicators;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986.\nSide marker lamp\nSchedule 9: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA passenger vehicle;\nAn incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nA vehicle the overall length of which does not exceed 6 m;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1991;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1996 in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied–\n(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 Community 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\n(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).\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nNone.\nRear fog lamp\nSchedule 11: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1980;\nA vehicle having an overall width which does not exceed 1300 mm.\nStop lamp\nSchedule 12: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle or a works truck;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1936.\nEnd-outline marker lamp\nSchedule 13: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA motor vehicle having an overall width not exceeding 2100 mm;\nAn incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nA motor vehicle first used before 1st April 1991.\nRear registration plate lamp\nSchedule 15.\nA vehicle not required to be fitted with a rear registration plate;\nA works truck.\nSide retro reflector\nSchedule 17: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA goods vehicle–\n(a)first used on or after 1st April 1986, the overall length of which does not exceed 6 m; or\n(b)first used before 1st April 1986, the overall length of which does not exceed 8 m;\nA passenger vehicle;\nAn incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nA vehicle primarily constructed for moving excavated material and being used by virtue of an Order under section 44 of the Act;\nA mobile crane or engineering plant.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nNone.\nRear marking\nSchedule 19: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st August 1982, the unladen weight of which does not exceed 3050 kg;\nA vehicle the maximum gross weight of which does not exceed 7500 kg;\nA passenger vehicle not being an articulated bus;\nA tractive unit for an articulated vehicle;\nAn incomplete vehicle proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 being an agricultural vehicle, a works truck or engineering plant;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1940;\nA home forces' vehicle;\nA vehicle constructed or adapted for–\n(a)fire fighting or fire salvage;\n(b)servicing or controlling aircraft;\n(c)heating and dispensing tar or other material for the construction or maintenance of roads; or\n(d)transporting two or more vehicles or vehicle bodies or two or more boats;\nA vehicle fitted with conspicuity markings to the rear where the fitting of those markings complies with the mandatory or optional ECE conspicuity requirements.\nDaytime running lamp\nSchedule 24\nA vehicle first registered before 1st March 2018.\nHeadlamp cleaning device\nA vehicle not required by the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020, or by Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, to be fitted with a headlamp cleaning device\nReversing lamp\nSchedule 14: Part 1\nA vehicle not required by the Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020, or by Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, to be fitted with reversing lamps.\nTABLE II\nSolo motor bicycle and motor bicycle combination\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp or reflector\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nFront position lamp\nSchedule 2: Part I\nA solo motor bicycle fitted with a headlamp.\nDipped-beam headlamp\nSchedule 4: Part I\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1931.\nMain-beam headlamp\nSchedule 5: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1972 and having an engine with a capacity of less than 50 cc;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1931.\nDirection indicator\nSchedule 7: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986;\nA 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.\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nNone.\nStop lamp\nSchedule 12: Part I\nA vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph;\nA vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 and having an engine with a capacity of less than 50 cc;\nA vehicle first used before 1st January 1936.\nRear registration plate lamp\nSchedule 15\nA vehicle not required to be fitted with a rear registration plate.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nNone.\nTABLE III\nPedal cycle\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp or reflector\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nFront position lamp\nSchedule 2: Part I\nNone.\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nNone.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nNone.\nPedal retro reflector\nSchedule 20: Part I\nA pedal cycle manufactured before 1st October 1985.\nTABLE IV\nPedestrian-controlled vehicle, horse-drawn vehicle and track-laying vehicle\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp or reflector\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nFront position lamp\nSchedule 2: Part I\nNone.\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nNone.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nNone.\nTABLE V\nVehicle drawn or propelled by hand\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp or reflector\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nFront position lamp\nSchedule 2: Part I\nNone.\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nA vehicle fitted with a rear retro reflector.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nA vehicle fitted with a rear position lamp.\nTABLE VI\nTrailer drawn by a motor vehicle\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp, reflector or rear marking\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nFront position lamp\nSchedule 2: Part I\nA trailer with an overall width not exceeding 1600 mm;\nA 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;\nA trailer constructed or adapted for the carriage and launching of a boat.\nDirection indicator\nSchedule 7: Part I\nA trailer manufactured before 1st September 1965;\nAn agricultural vehicle or a works trailer in either case manufactured before 1st October 1990.\nSide marker lamp\nSchedule 9: Part I\nA trailer the overall length of which, excluding any drawbar and any fitting for its attachment, does not exceed–\n(a)6 m,\n(b)9.15 m in the case of a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990;\nAn incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nAn agricultural vehicle or a works trailer;\nA caravan;\nA trailer constructed or adapted for the carriage and launching of a boat;\nA trailer manufactured before 1st October 1995 in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied–\n(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 Community 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\n(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.\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nNone.\nRear fog lamp\nSchedule 11: Part I\nA trailer manufactured before 1st April 1980;\nA trailer the overall width of which does not exceed 1300 mm;\nAn agricultural vehicle or a works trailer.\nStop lamp\nSchedule 12: Part I\nAn agricultural vehicle or a works trailer.\nEnd-outline marker lamp\nSchedule 13: Part I\nA trailer having an overall width not exceeding 2100 mm;\nAn incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nAn agricultural vehicle or a works trailer;\nA trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990.\nRear registration plate lamp\nSchedule 15\nA trailer not required to be fitted with a rear registration plate.\nSide retro reflector\nSchedule 17: Part I\nA trailer the overall length of which, excluding any drawbar, does not exceed 5 m;\nAn incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nEngineering plant;\nA trailer primarily constructed for moving excavated material and which is being used by virtue of an Order under section 44 of the Act.\nFront retro reflector\nSchedule 21: Part I\nA trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990;\nAn agricultural vehicle or a works trailer.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nNone.\nRear marking\nSchedule 19: Part I\nA trailer manufactured before 1st August 1982 the unladen weight of which does not exceed 1020 kg;\nA trailer the maximum gross weight of which does not exceed 3500 kg;\nAn incomplete trailer proceeding to a works for completion or to a place where it is to be stored or displayed for sale;\nAn agricultural vehicle, a works trailer or engineering plant;\nA trailer drawn by a bus;\nA home forces' vehicle;\nA trailer constructed or adapted for–\n(a)fire fighting or fire salvage;\n(b)servicing or controlling aircraft;\n(c)heating and dispensing tar or other material for the construction or maintenance of roads;\n(d)carrying asphalt or macadam, in each case being mixing or drying plant; or\n(e)transporting two or more vehicles or vehicle bodies or two or more boats;\nA trailer fitted with conspicuity markings to the rear where the fitting of those markings complies with the mandatory or optional ECE conspicuity requirements.\nTABLE VII\nTrailer drawn by a pedal cycle\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nType of lamp, reflector or rear marking\nSchedule in which relevant installation and performance requirements are specified\nExceptions\nRear position lamp\nSchedule 10: Part I\nNone.\nRear retro reflector\nSchedule 18: Part I\nNone.",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Semicolon 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 inserted (20.5.2018) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/852), regs. 1, 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 substituted (1.9.2020) by The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/818), reg. 1(b), Sch. 6 para. 9 (with Sch. 4 paras. 16, 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Semicolon 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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