{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-14/part-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-14/part-II.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/14/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "requirements relating to optional reversing lamps",
  "text": "1 Number:\nNot more than two but if the vehicle has an overall length which exceeds 6 m and is—\n(a)a bus; or\n(b)a vehicle which is not a passenger vehicle,\nfour may be fitted\n2 Position:\nNo requirement\n3 Angles of visibility:\nNo requirement\n4 Alignment:\nTo the rear but if, in accordance with paragraph 1, four are fitted the configuration shall be—\n(a)four to the rear; or\n(b)two to the rear and one on each side\n5 Markings–\n(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1986 and a trailer manufactured on or after 1st October 1985:\nAn approval mark\n(b) A motor vehicle first used before 1st April 1986 and a trailer manufactured before 1st October 1985:\nNo requirement\n6 Size of illuminated area:\nNo requirement\n7 Colour:\nWhite\n8 Wattage–\n(a) A reversing lamp bearing an approval mark:\nNo requirement\n(b) A reversing lamp not bearing an approval mark:\nThe total wattage of any one reversing lamp shall not exceed 24 watts\n9 Intensity:\nNo requirement\n10 Electrical connections:\nNo requirement except that if, in accordance with paragraph 4, reversing lamps have been fitted to the side, the following requirements shall apply in relation to those lamps—\n(a)it shall not be possible for the reversing lamps to be illuminated unless the front and rear position lamps of the vehicle are illuminated at the same time; and\n(b)the reversing lamps shall be switched on and off by the manual operation of one switch which shall have no other function; but\n(c)the reversing lamps shall switch off automatically if the vehicle is moving forward at a speed of 10km/h or more\n11 Tell-tale–\n(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 1st July 1954, provided that the electrical connections are such that any reversing lamp or lamps fitted to the rear cannot be illuminated other than automatically by the selection of the reverse gear of the vehicle:\nNo requirement\n(b) Any other motor vehicle first used on or after 1st July 1954:\nA circuit-closed tell-tale shall be fitted\n(c) A motor vehicle first used before 1st July 1954:\nNo requirement\n(d) Any vehicle which is not a motor vehicle:\nNo requirement",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 Pt. 1 inserted (20.5.2018) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/852), regs. 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 para. 1 substituted (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 12(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 para. 4 substituted (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 12(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 para. 10 substituted (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 12(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 para. 11(a) substituted (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 12(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 para. 11(a) inserted (4.1.2010) by The Road Vehicles Lighting and Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3220), regs. 1, 12(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 1 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 2 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 3 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 4 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 5 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 6 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 7 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I8",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 8 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I9",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 9 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I10",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 10 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I11",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 11 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/14/part/II",
    "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."
}