sch.1-sec.79Changing headlights from high-beam to low-beam position

sch.1-sec.79 Changing headlights from high-beam to low-beam position

A motor vehicle built after 1934 that can travel at more than 60km/h must be fitted with— a dipping device enabling the driver from the normal driving position of the vehicle— to change the headlights from the high-beam position to the low-beam position; or to simultaneously switch off a high-beam headlight and switch on a low-beam headlight; and for a vehicle built after June 1953—a device to indicate to the driver from the normal driving position of the vehicle that the headlights are in the high-beam position. A headlight fitted to a motor vehicle without a dipping device mentioned in subsection (1) (a) must operate in the low-beam position. When a headlight fitted to a motor 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. (sch.1-sec.79-ssec.1) A motor vehicle built after 1934 that can travel at more than 60km/h must be fitted with— a dipping device enabling the driver from the normal driving position of the vehicle— to change the headlights from the high-beam position to the low-beam position; or to simultaneously switch off a high-beam headlight and switch on a low-beam headlight; and for a vehicle built after June 1953—a device to indicate to the driver from the normal driving position of the vehicle that the headlights are in the high-beam position. (sch.1-sec.79-ssec.2) A headlight fitted to a motor vehicle without a dipping device mentioned in subsection (1) (a) must operate in the low-beam position. (sch.1-sec.79-ssec.3) When a headlight fitted to a motor 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.

• (a) a dipping device enabling the driver from the normal driving position of the vehicle— (i) to change the headlights from the high-beam position to the low-beam position; or (ii) to simultaneously switch off a high-beam headlight and switch on a low-beam headlight; and
• (i) to change the headlights from the high-beam position to the low-beam position; or
• (ii) to simultaneously 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 from the normal driving position of the vehicle that the headlights are in the high-beam position.
• (i) to change the headlights from the high-beam position to the low-beam position; or
• (ii) to simultaneously switch off a high-beam headlight and switch on a low-beam headlight; and