Lighting regulations consolidated
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• Coming into effect on June 1 are The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1971: SI 694, which bring together in a single statutory instrument all the regulations on vehicle lighting and signalling equipment. They consolidate the 1964 lighting regulations and subsequent amendments and they include The Road Vehicles (Headlamps) Regulations 1969 and the 1969 Construction and Use Regulations in so far as they relate to direction indicators and stop lamps.
The 1971 regulations cost 45p net from HM Stationery Office or booksellers.
Several new items take effect with the: 1971 regulations. For example the use ( headlamps on unlit roads at night has bee extended to three-wheeled vehicle (Regulation 22), while Regulation 7 clarifies the use of direction indicators as hazard warning—they must operate shut taneously on both sides of a vehicle, inclu4 a warning device for the driver to show whi they are on, and must be actuated by separate switch.
Regulations 3(1) and 3(6) contai definitions of the kerbside weight applicabl when defining the height of lamps ( reflectors from the ground, while Regulatio 68(8) now makes it permissible I.( breakdown vehicles to show a flashing amb lamp while towing a disabled vehicle—th was previously forbidden.
Among the other new or modifie regulations are several which relax ti requirements for the positioning of rer lamps and reflectors.