Abstract: A lighting assembly includes a heat dissipating member, a socket and an LED light module removably coupleable to the socket. The socket has one or more electrical contact elements accessed via one or more slots in the socket such that they are protected from inadvertent human contact. The LED light module includes an LED lighting element and one or more electrical contact members that can extend into the one or more slots to releasably contact the one or more electrical contact elements, and establish an operative electrical connection, when the LED light module is coupled to the socket. One or more resilient members of the LED light module or socket gradually compress as the LED light module is axially inserted at least partially into the socket and then rotated relative to the socket such that the one or more electrical contact members move along the one or more slots into contact with the one or more electrical contact elements of the socket.