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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9Road traffic legislation: use of vehicles in emergency response by NHS

Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1796)

14(1)Part 2 of Schedule 18 (requirements relating to optional rear retro reflectors) is amended as follows.

(2)The first sentence becomes paragraph 1.

(3)At the end of that paragraph insert “, subject to paragraphs 2 and 3.”

(4)The second sentence becomes paragraph 2.

(5)In that paragraph—

(a)omit “But”;

(b)omit paragraph (c).

(6)After paragraph 2 insert—

3The colour of rear retro reflectors fitted to—

(a)a vehicle used for ambulance purposes, or

(b)a vehicle used for the purpose of providing a response to an emergency at the request of an NHS ambulance service,

may be red, yellow or orange (or any combination), provided that, in the case mentioned in paragraph (b), the vehicle is owned by the NHS ambulance service or held by it under a lease or hire agreement.