83Changing headlights from high‑beam to low‑beam position

83 Changing headlights from high‑beam to low‑beam position

(1) A motor vehicle built after 1934 that can travel at over 60 kilometres an hour must be fitted with: (a) a dipping device enabling the driver in the normal driving position: (i) to change the headlights from the high‑beam position to the low‑beam position; or (ii) simultaneously to switch off a high‑beam headlight and switch on a low‑beam headlight; and (b) for a vehicle built after June 1953—a device to indicate to the driver that the headlights are in the high‑beam position. (2) A headlight fitted to a vehicle not fitted with a dipping device mentioned in subrule (1)(a) must operate in the low‑beam position. (3) When a headlight fitted to a vehicle is switched to the low‑beam position, any other headlight on the vehicle must operate only in the low‑beam position or be off.