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Could someone tell me what the law states with regards to the illumination of number plates in the UK? (i.e. number of lights, intensity in mcd (milli-candella)?)

I have installed a reversing camera on my car in the place of a number plate lamp holder and no longer have enough space to reinstall a bulb so I want to replace both lamp holders with 'LED Bolts' similar to this:

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CHROME WHITE LED LIGHT NUMBER PLATE SCREW BOLTS

But all of these products are sold for scooters and motorbikes and I want to make sure my car would still be road worthy.

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The rules you are after are the road vehicle lighting regulations 1989 (link).

Particularly this page.

Unfortunatly, as usual, they are pretty vague:

Such that the lamp or lamps are capable of adequately illuminating the rear registration plate

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I can't see any minimum rating there - I don't think any are specified in candela, it's usually a wattage IIRC.

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