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As said there is too little control information available to make a reasoned response.
This is one possible method of achieving a control method, but this may not be the control required or compliant with standards.
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Richard Burns possible method provides the control:

If[K or P or T] then L is on.

Or in prose:

If it is dark or if it is the right time the lighting will turn on; and their is the option also to use the keyswitch to manually turn the (non-emergency) lighting on .

The light fittings each have their own keyswitch to test each fittings integral emergency lighting.

'Or' requires switches in parallel and 'and' requires switches in series. Using 'brackets eg [ ...]' one can state clearly the hard-wired combinational logic required from the switches (as was done in #6 using () and [].

So how would one write down as if/then and then implement:

The non-emergency lighting is to turn on:

1. if it is dark and it is the right time,

or

2. a manually timed override (eg using a time-lag push switch - see Vacuum Time Lag Light Switch - https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/EK400A.html)?

or

2. Manually using a keyswitch.
 

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