01-07-2019, 03:42 PM
(01-07-2019, 03:08 PM)JohnD Wrote: Hedd, I was under the impression that if they were fitted they had to work.
I removed the indicators from a 1980 Vespa and sent it for an MOT, but as it still had an indicator switch this was [In theory!] a failure!
No, and don't expect MOT testers to know the law either, not that the law and the MOT testing requirements are necessarily consistent.
The law:-
SI1989 No 1796( The Road Vehicles Lighting Regs 1989) Pt1 Reg 4 (Exemptions)
(4) Without prejudice to regulation 16, for the purposes of these Regulations a lamp shall not be treated as a lamp if it is-
(a) so painted over or masked that it is not capable of being immediately used or readily put to use; or
(b) an electric lamp which is not provided with any system of wiring by means of which that lamp is, or can readily be, connected with a source of electricity.
(b) an electric lamp which is not provided with any system of wiring by means of which that lamp is, or can readily be, connected with a source of electricity.