I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree, but as far as I read it:
As per the MOT testers Manual:
4.1.1 Presence, condition & operation
‘Mandatory headlamps’ are a matched pair of main beam headlamps.
The ‘defect’ (major fail) reason for fail.
(a) A Headlamp: one (1) of the ‘matching pair’
(ii) missing
The Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989 (ignoring the 2017 Amendment – Just boring washers etc.)
Exemptions – General - 4
(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall require any lamp or reflector to be fitted between sunrise and sunset to –
• (a) A vehicle not fitted with any front or rear position lamp.
(4) Without prejudice to regulation 16 (blue lights) for the purpose of these Regulations a lamp shall not be treated as being a lamp if it is-
• (a) painted over….
• (b) no wiring (paraphrased)
So as you say Regs trump MOT - lamps are NOT required to be fitted a vehicle between wakey wakey & bedtime!
Last edited by Colin HD; 22nd August 2019 at 12:52..
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