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No requirement for a handbrake warning light on an old car, only if you have to IVA it.
Does a 1980 Spitfire still count as old?
I was going to check this as I'd already made the assumption that the seat belt warning light was not required.
( But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about that )
At 32 years old your 1980 Spitfire counts as an old car.
The problem fogging people's perspective on the issue of retro fitting unnecessary modern fripperies, like a light that goes out to tell you when you've put your seat belt on - I know when I've put my fking seat belt on - is the IVA Bullshit that most other kit car owners have foisted on them by the nanny state.
For us sensible Sammio types, the MOT is a pretty straightforward safety check. Take a look through the document below and see if you can find anything about compulsory handbrake, seat belt and brake failure warning lights because I can't. Oh, and if the brakes do fail you can take great comfort in the fact that a little red light came on as you ploughed into the back of the truck
... is the IVA Bullshit that most other kit car owners have foisted on them by the nanny state.
If it wasn't for the fact that someone in the Govt stepped up and suggested we would commit to the SVA (now IFA) to appease the Nazis currently controlling the EC we wouldn't be able to produce kit cars in the UK.
Still no. 
No, no. 
No, no no.
Erm, just NO. 