{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-12/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-12/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1796",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989",
  "path": "schedule/12/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Requirements relating to obligatory stop lamps and to optional stop lamps to the extent specified in part ii",
  "text": "1 Number–\n(a) Any vehicle not covered by sub-paragraph (b) or (c):\nTwo\n(b) A solo motor bicycle, a motor bicycle combination, an invalid carriage and a trailer drawn by a solo motor bicycle or a motor bicycle combination:\nOne\n(c) Any other motor vehicle first used before 1st January 1971 and any other trailer manufactured before that date:\nOne\n2 Position–\n(a) Longitudinal:\nNo requirement\n(b) Lateral–\n(i) Maximum distance from the side of the vehicle–\n(A) Where two stop lamps are fitted:\nOne on each side of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle\n(B) Where only one stop lamp is fitted:\nOn the centre-line or off side of the vehicle (disregarding any sidecar forming part of a motor bicycle combination)\n(ii) Minimum separation distance between two obligatory stop lamps:\n400 mm\n(c) Vertical–\n(i) Maximum height above the ground–\n(A) Any vehicle not covered by sub-paragraph (B):\n1500 mm or, if the structure of the vehicle makes this impracticable, 2100 mm\n(B) A motor vehicle first used before 1st January 1971, a trailer manufactured before that date and a motor vehicle having a maximum speed not exceeding 25 mph:\nNo requirement\n(ii) Minimum height above the ground–\n(A) Any vehicle not covered by sub-paragraph (B):\n350 mm\n(B) A motor vehicle first used before 1st January 1971 and a trailer manufactured before that date:\nNo requirement\n3 Angles of visibility–\n(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 1st January 1971 and a trailer manufactured on or after that date–\n(i) Horizontal:\n45° to the left and to the right\n(ii) Vertical–\n(A) Except in a case specified in sub-paragraph (B) or (C):\n15° above and below the horizontal\n(B) Where the highest part of the illuminated area of the lamp is less than 1500 mm above the ground:\n15° above and 10° below the horizontal\n(C) Where the highest part of the illuminated area of the lamp is less than 750 mm above the ground:\n15° above and 5° below the horizontal\n(b) A motor vehicle first used before 1st January 1971 and a trailer manufactured before that date:\nVisible to the rear\n4 Alignment:\nTo the rear\n5 Markings–\n(a) Any vehicle not covered by sub-paragraph (b) or (c):\nAn approval mark\n(b) A motor vehicle first used before 1st February 1974 and a trailer manufactured before that date:\nNo requirement\n(c) A solo motor bicycle and a motor bicycle combination, in each case first used before 1st April 1986, and a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1985 drawn by a solo motor bicycle or a motor bicycle combination:\nNo requirement\n6 Size of illuminated area:\nNo requirement\n7 Colour:\nRed\n8 Wattage–\n(a) A stop lamp fitted to a motor vehicle first used before 1st January 1971 or a trailer manufactured before that date and a stop lamp bearing an approval mark:\nNo requirement\n(b) Any other stop lamp:\n15 to 36 watts\n9 Intensity:\nNo requirement",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 1 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 2 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 3 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 4 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 5 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 6 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 7 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 8 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I9",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. I para. 9 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/12/part/I",
    "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."
}