{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-5/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-5/paragraph-10.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/5/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Electrical connections–\n(a) Every main-beam headlamp shall be so constructed that the light emitted therefrom–\n(i) can be deflected at the will of the driver to become a dipped beam, or\n(ii) can be extinguished by the operation of a device which at the same time either–\n(A) causes the lamp to emit a dipped beam, or\n(B) causes another lamp to emit a dipped beam.\n(b) Where a matched pair of main-beam headlamps is fitted they shall be capable of being switched on and off simultaneously and not otherwise.\n11 Tell-tale–\n(a) Any vehicle not covered by sub-paragraph (b):\nA circuit-closed tell-tale shall be fitted\n(b) A motor vehicle first used before 1st April 1986:\nNo requirement",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. I para. 10 in force at 1.11.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. I para. 11 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/5/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}