{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-17/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-17/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/169",
  "legislation_title": "Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "schedule/17/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Requirements Relating to Obligatory Side Retro Reflectors and Optional Side Retro Reflectors to the Extent Specified in Part II",
  "text": "1 Number—\n(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured on or after 24th January 1996:\nOn each side: two and as many more as are sufficient to satisfy the requirements of paragraph 2(a)\n(b) A motor vehicle first used before 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured before 24th January 1996:\nOn each side: two\n2 Position—\n(a) Longitudinal—\n(i) A motor vehicle first used on or after 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured on or after 24th January 1996—\n(A) Maximum distance from the front of the vehicle, including any drawbar, in respect of the foremost reflector on each side:\n4 m\n(B) Maximum distance from the rear of the vehicle in respect of the rearmost reflector on each side:\n1 m\n(C) Maximum separation distance between the reflecting areas of adjacent reflectors on the same side of the vehicle:\n3 m or, if this is not practicable, 4 m\n(ii) A motor vehicle first used before 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured before 24th January 1996—\n(A) Maximum distance from the rear of the vehicle in respect of the rearmost reflector on each side:\n500 mm\n(B) The other reflector on each side of the vehicle:\nTowards the centre of the vehicle\n(b) Lateral:\nNo requirement\n(c) Vertical—\n(i) Maximum height above the ground:\n1500 mm\n(ii) Minimum height above the ground:\n350 mm\n3 Angles of visibility—\n(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured on or after 24th January 1996—\n(i) Horizontal:\n45° to the left and to the right when viewed in a direction at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle\n(ii) Vertical—\n(A) Except in a case specified in sub- head (B):\n15° above and below the horizontal\n(B) Where the highest part of the reflecting area is less than 750 mm above the ground:\n15° above and 5° below the horizontal\n(b) A motor vehicle first used before 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured before 24th January 1996:\nPlainly visible to the side\n4 Alignment:\nTo the side\n5 Markings:\nAn approval mark\n6 Size of reflecting area:\nNo requirement\n7 Colour—\n(a) Any vehicle not covered by sub-paragraph (b):\nAmber or if within 1 m of the rear of the vehicle it may be red\n(b) A solo motor bicycle, a motor bicycle combination, a pedal cycle with or without a sidecar or an invalid carriage:\nNo requirement\n8 Other requirements:\nNo side retro reflector shall be triangular",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/169/schedule/17/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:36.082717+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."
}