National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)

Regulations

National Road Traffic Regulations, 2000

Chapter VI : Fitness of Vehicles

Part II : Equipment on or in respect of vehicles

165. When parking lamps to be kept lighted
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(1) No person shall operate on a public road a motor vehicle if on any side of the longitudinal centre-line thereof no head lamp in use is so placed that the portion of its illuminating surface furthest from such centre-line is within 400 millimetres from the outer-edge of the front of the vehicle, unless a parking lamp fitted to that side of the vehicle and complying with regulation 164 is kept lighted.

 

(2) No person shall operate on a public road a motor vehicle of which only the parking lamps are lighted while such vehicle is in motion.