Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 No. 169

Regulation 21

SCHEDULE 15 Requirements relating to obligatory rear registration plate lamps

1.  Number: 2.  Position: 3.  Angles of visibility: 4.  Alignment:	Such that the lamp or lamps are capable of adequately illuminating the rear registration plate
5.  Markings—
(a) A motor vehicle first used on or after 24th January 1996 and a trailer manufactured on or after 24th January 1996 :	An approval mark
(b) Any other vehicle:	No requirement
6.  Size of illuminated area:	No requirement
7.  Colour:	White
8.  Wattage:	No requirement
9.  Intensity:	No requirement
10.  Electrical connections:	No individual requirement
11.  Tell-tale:	No requirement

12.  Definitions—

In this Schedule “approval mark” means—

(a) in relation to a solo motor bicycle, a motor bicycle combination and a trailer drawn by a solo motor bicycle or a motor bicycle combination, a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4 of the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 50A of Schedule 2 to those Regulations; and

(b) in relation to any other motor vehicle and any other trailer, either—

(i) a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 5 of the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 10 of Schedule 4 to those Regulations; or

(ii) a marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4 of the Designation of Approval Marks Regulations and shown at item 4 of Schedule 2 to those Regulations.