The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986

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(d) each interior mirror shall be capable of being adjusted by the driver whenin his driving
position; and
(e) except in the case of a mirror which, if knocked out of its alignment, canbe returned to its
former position without needing to be adjusted, each exteriormirror on the driver's side of
the vehicle shall be capable of being adjustedby the driver when in his driving position,
but this requirement shall notprevent such a mirror from being locked into position from
the outside ofthe vehicle.
TABLE
(regulation 33(1))
1 2 3 4
Item Class of vehicle Mirrors to be fitted Requirements to be
complied with by
any mirrorsfitted
1 A motor vehicle which is
—
(a) drawing a trailer,
if a person is
carriedon the trailer
so that he has an
uninterrupted view
to the rear and has
anefficient means of
communicating to
the driver the effect
of signals givenby
the drivers of other
vehicles to the rear;
(b) (i) a works truck;
(ii) a track-laying
agricultural
motor
vehicle;and
(c)
(d)
(iii)
a wheeled
agricultural
motor
vehiclefirst
used before 1st
June 1978,
if, in each case, the
drivercan easily
obtain a view to the
rear;
a pedestriancontrolled
vehicle;
a chassis being
driven from the
placewhere it has
been manufactured
to the place where
No requirement
(a)If the vehicle is a
wheeled vehicle first
used on or after 1st June
1978, Item 2 of Annex I
to Community Directive
71/127or 79/795 or
Annex II to Community
Directive 85/205and
paragraph (4)of this
regulation.
(b)In other cases, none,
except as specified in
paragraph (3).
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