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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Filament Lamps for Vehicles (Safety) Regulations 1982.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the expiry of a period of six months beginning on the day on which these Regulations are made.
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(1) No person shall supply, offer to supply, agree to supply, expose for supply or possess for supply any filament lamp of a type to which an ECE Regulation or Community Instrument mentioned in an item in column 2 of the Table below applies unless it is marked with the marking designated as an 0approval mark by the provisions in the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979 mentioned in relation to that item in column 3 of that Table.

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Item No. ECE Regulation or Community Instrument Provisions in the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979
1 ECE Regulation No. 2 Regulation 4 and item 2 or 2A in Schedule 2.
2 ECE Regulation No. 8 Regulation 4 and item 8 in Schedule 2.
3 ECE Regulation No. 20 Regulation 4 and item 20 in Schedule 2.
4 ECE Regulation No. 37 Regulation 4 and item 37 or 37A in Schedule 2.
5 Council Directive 76/761/EEC of 27th July 1976 Regulation 5 and item 18 in Schedule 4.
(2) In this Regulation “ECE Regulation” has the meaning given in Regulation 3(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979.
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The prohibition specified in Regulation 2(1) above relates only to a filament lamp as an entity separate from, and not as part of, a lamp unit or a vehicle.
David Howell
Secretary of State for Transport
24th March 1982