| I pursued this subject a few months ago and the upshot was I got a nice e-mail from the Department for Transport confirming that you do not need any lights at all so long as the vehicle is only used between sunrise and sunset. The exception is on days of very poor visibility, i.e. fog, heavy rain etc.
Switch gear and lights can remain on the vehicle as long as they are disconnected (not just bulbs removed) and the lights are fully taped over. Why you would want to just disconnect rather than removing beats me but legally you can go that route.
They did advise retaining a brake light purely from a personal safety point of view. (There are some very small "E" marked LED brake/tail lights available which do the job nicely.)
And as Phil pointed out, you do need a horn. |