{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/schedule-8.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/8",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "requirements relating to obligatory and optional hazard warning signal devices",
  "text": "Every hazard warning signal device shall–\n(a) be operated by one switch;\n(b) cause all the direction indicators with which a vehicle or a combination of vehicles is equipped to flash in phase;\n(c) be provided with a circuit-closed tell-tale in the form of a flashing light which may operate in conjunction with any direction indicator tell-tale; and\n(d) be able to function even if the device which controls the starting and stopping of the engine is in a position which makes it impossible to start the engine.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}