# Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, Paragraph 1: Fitting of illuminable signs and warning lights


(1) Illuminable signs and warning lights on a bus which is being used to provide a school service shall be fitted so that the centre of the illuminable sign and warning lights shall be positioned not less than 1500mm or more than 3500mm from ground level.
(2) Warning lights referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall be fitted—
(a) in alignment with the illuminable sign;
(b) with the edge of the illuminable sign not more than 200mm from the nearest point on the illuminable area of the warning lights;
(c) so that no part of the lights are obstructed; and
(d) so that they operate independently of any other lighting on the bus.
(3) Where the illuminable sign and warning lights are fitted on the front and rear of the bus behind glass—
(a) the glass shall be clear and not tinted as stated in regulation 37 of the Construction and Use Regulations; and
(b) in addition no part of the illuminable sign and lights shall encroach more than 40mm into the swept area of the wipers or have any detrimental impact on the driver’s forward vision or exterior mirror view.
(4) Where permissible text is used in conjunction with the illuminable sign and warning lights, the warning lights shall be fitted on either side of the permissible text and the illuminable sign, with the edge of the illuminable sign and text on each side being not more than 200mm from the nearest point on the illuminated area of the warning lights as set out in diagram 5.
Diagram 5
(5) In this paragraph “permissible text” means—
(a) the words “School Bus” or “School”; or
(b) the route number or the name of the school
and the text shall be at least 200mm in height and may be either upper or lower case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/169/schedule/22D/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-22D/paragraph-1
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.