1. This Order may be cited as the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Anglia Railways Class 170/2 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2000 and shall come into force on 28th July 2000.

2. Any reference in this Order to a numbered regulation is a reference to a regulation bearing that number in the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998(2).

3. This Order applies to the rail vehicles which are numbered 50201 to 50208, 56201 to 56208 and 79201 to 79208 and which form the diesel multiple-units numbered 170201 to 170208 of the class known as "class 170/2" ("the exempted vehicles") as manufactured by ABB Daimler Benz Transportation (UK) Limited for use by Anglia Railways Train Services Ltd.

4.-(1) Subject to articles 5, 6 and 7 below, the exempted vehicles are hereby authorised to be used for carriage even though they do not conform with those provisions of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 referred to in paragraph (2) below.

(2) The provisions with which the exempted vehicles are not required to conform are-

(a)regulation 4(3)(b);

(b)regulation 5, in so far as it relates to control devices which are not operated by the application of pressure and which do not control doors which are in the side of an exempted vehicle; and

(c)regulation 5(1)(a), in so far as it relates to control devices in the side of an exempted vehicle.

5. In relation to a control device fitted to a door between a passenger saloon and a vestibule adjoining a doorway in the side of a vehicle, the exemption given by article 4(2)(b) above shall only apply while instructions for the operation of the door in question are displayed on a sign-

(a)placed on or near that door and on the same side of the door as the control device in question; and

(b)on which the letters, numbers or diagrams which constitute the instructions contrast with their background and are identifiable by touch.

6.-(1) The exemption given by article 4(2)(a) in respect of regulation 4(3)(b) shall cease at the end of 31st December 2000.

(2) The exemption given by article 4(2)(b) in respect of regulation 5 shall cease-

(a)at the end of 31st December 2001 in relation to control devices fitted to doors between the vestibule adjoining a doorway in the side of a vehicle and a passenger saloon; and

(b)at the end of 31st December 2011 in relation to control devices fitted to doors in the ends of the exempted vehicles.

(3) The exemption given by article 4(2)(c) above in respect of regulation 5(1)(a) shall cease-

(a)at the end of 31st December 2010; or

(b)in respect of an exempted vehicle in which all the door control devices for the doors in the sides of the exempted vehicle and the control systems for those doorways are replaced before that date, when such replacement is completed.

7. The authorisation shall cease forthwith in respect of an exempted vehicle which is operated by a person other than Anglia Railways Train Services Ltd unless the Secretary of State has been given written notice in advance specifying the name and address of that other person.

8. The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Anglia Railways Class 170/2 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999(3) is hereby revoked.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises the use of specified rail vehicles forming Class 170/2 diesel multiple-units, although they do not conform with certain requirements of the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 because:

warning sounds are emitted whenever the passenger doors in the sides of the vehicles are closed;

passenger operation of some doors is by means of beam operated door sensors; and

some of the door controls are not at the required height;

It sets time limits on the authorisations and imposes conditions.

Anglia Railways previously had certain exemptions for the vehicles which are the subject of this Order by virtue of The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Anglia Railways Class 170/2 Vehicles) Exemption Order 1999, which is revoked by this Order.